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.