Modi to distribute portfolios at Cabinet meet

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh is likely to become the Home Minister, said reports.

Senior party leader Sushma Swaraj may reportedly become the External Affairs Minister, while Arun Jaitley is likely to be the Finance and Defence Minister.

Meanwhile, media speculations said Nitin Gadkari may get the charge of Surface and Shipping Transport Ministries, while Ravi Shankar Prasad may become the Law and Telecom Minister. 

President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday appointed Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India.

Further, as advised by the Prime Minister, the President appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers:-

Cabinet Ministers

1.  Raj Nath Singh

2.  Sushma Swaraj

3.Arun Jaitley

4. M. Venkaiah Naidu

5.  Nitin Jairam Gadkari

6.  D.V. Sadananda Gowda

7.  Uma Bharati

8. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

9.  Gopinathrao Munde

10.  Ramvilas Paswan

11.  Kalraj Mishra

12. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

13. Ananthkumar

14 Ravi Shankar Prasad

15.  Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

16. Anant Geete

17.  Harsimrat Kaur Badal

18. Narendra Singh Tomar

19. Jual Oram

20. Radha Mohan Singh

21.Thaawar Chand Gehlot

22. Smriti Zubin Irani

23. Harsh Vardhan

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. General V.K. Singh

2. Inderjit Singh Rao

3. Santosh Kumar Gangwar

4. Shripad Yesso Naik

5. Dharmendra Pradhan

6. Sarbananda Sonowal

7. Prakash Javadekar

8. Piyush Goyal

9. Dr. Jitendra Singh

10. Nirmala Sitharaman

Ministers of State

1. G.M. Siddeshwara

2. Manoj Sinha

3. Nihalchand

4. Upendra Kushwaha

5. Radhakrishnan P

6. Kiren Rijiju

7. Krishan Pal

8. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

9. Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava

10. Raosaheb Dadarao Danve

11.Vishnu Deo Sai

12. Sudarshan Bhagat

Mukherjee administered the oaths of office and secrecy to the members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday evening.