Who will be a part of new Narendra Modi Cabinet? See list here

Capping a landslide election victory, Modi will take oath as Prime Minister along with his new council of ministers at 7 pm on Thursday.

The BJP has refrained from making any official comment about the likely members of the new Modi government, with its leaders asserting that it is the prime minister's prerogative. Photo: PTI

NEW DELHI: BJP president Amit Shah and senior leaders Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Prakash Javadekar and Ravi Shankar Prasad are set to be sworn in as Cabinet ministers along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening. The news of Shah joining the Cabinet came from Gujarat BJP chief Jitu Vaghani, who tweeted a congratulatory message. "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," he tweeted. Shah was part of a meeting Modi held at his residence at 4.30 pm with the MPs selected for ministerial berths. There have been indications that senior leader Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh may also join Modi's new cabinet. 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 refrained from making any official comment about the likely members of the government, with its leaders asserting that it is the prime minister's prerogative. Senior party leaders like Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and Smriti Irani are likely to join the second Modi government after being its members in its first avatar. The swearing-in ceremony in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan is expected to be grand affair with about 8,000 guests, including leaders from the BIMSTEC countries, opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, chief ministers, corporate honchos and film stars, watching as President Ram Nath Kovind administers the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year-old Modi and his ministerial colleagues.