Modi’s tentative Compact Cabinet

As PM designate Narendra Modi who will be sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of India, it is said that he will head a 45 member cabinet comprising of a Total of 24 cabinet ministers, 10 Independent charges and 11 MoS .Mr Nripendra Misra is designated to be principal secretary to the PM. Rajnath Singh might get the home ministry portfolio, Piyush Goel might head Oil and Energy ministry.

While the other probable contenders who could get berth in his cabinet include:Union Cabinet it is: Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu, Sadanand Gowda, Uma Bharti, Najma Heptullah, Gopinath Munde, Ramvilas Paswan, Kalraj Mishra, Maneka Gandhi, Ananth Kumar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Anant Geete, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Narendra Singh Tomar, Jual Oram, Radha Mohan Singh, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Smriti Irani, Dr. Harshvardhan

List of MoS (Independent Charge) - VK Singh, Rao Inderjit Singh, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Shripad Naik, Dharmendra Pradhan, Sarbananda Sonowal, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goel, Dr.Jitendra Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, G.M. Siddeshwara, Manoj Sinha, Upendra Kushwaha, Pon Radhakrishnan, Kiren Rijiju, Krishan Pal Gujjar, Sanjeev Baliyan, Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava.

The key to the cabinet would be to keep the top layer minimal and increase the grass root level base of administration.Leader from the SAARC countries including Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have started pouring in for the Swearing in Ceremony .AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are also likely to attend the swearing in ceremony which is slated to happen at 6:00 PM.