New Delhi: BJP's Gujarat unit chief Jitu Vaghani announced on Twitter that party chief Amit Shah will be inducted in Modi’s cabinet. Vaghani's tweet ended speculation over Shah joining the government. Modi and his fresh team of ministers will be sworn in at 7 p.m. "Had a courtesy meeting with our mentor Amit Shah and gave my best wishes to him on his inclusion as a strong member of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers," Vagahni tweeted. Earlier in the morning, PM-elect Narendra Modi consultations with Amit Shah to give shape to his council of ministers before sending the list to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The two leaders have held several rounds of discussions in the last two days ahead of government formation. Shah is tipped to get either Home or Finance, sources said. The following are most likely to be part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new cabinet and could be sworn in this evening.
  1. Amit Shah
  2. R S Prasad
  3. Piyush Goyal
  4. Babul Supriyo
  5. S Jaishankar
  6. Anurag Thakur
  7. Purushottam Rupala
  8. Jitendra Singh
  9. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
  10. Prahlad Patel
  11. Prahlad Joshi
  12. Suresh Agadi
  13. Rita Bahuguna Joshi
  14. Smriti Irani
  15. Sadanand Gowda
  16. Arjun Meghwal
  17. Kishan Reddy
  18. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
  19. Mansukh L. Mandaviya
  20. Krishnapal Gurjar
  21. Parshottam Rupala
  22. Ramdas Athawale
  23. Sanjeev Balyan
  24. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  25. Sadhvi Jyoti Niranjan
  26. Thawar Chand Gehlot
  27. Rao Inderjit
  28. Giriraj Singh
  29. Kailash Choudhary
  30. Rajnath Singh
  31. Nityanand Rai
  32. K P Ravindran
  33. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank"
  34. OP Ravindranath Kumar
  35. Ram Vilas Paswan
  36. Raosaheb Danve
  37. Nitin Gadkari
  38. Som Prakash
  39. Rameswar Teli
  40. Sripad Naik
  41. Gajendra Shekhawat
  42. General VK Singh
  43. Mahesh Sharma
  44. Devashree Raiganj
  45. Sanjay Dohatare
  46. Santosh Gangwar
The BJP has remained tight-lipped about the likely members of the government, with its leaders asserting that it is the prime minister's prerogative.