Modi 3.0 Cabinet Ministers' List: Who's In, Who's Out?

Several new faces will be included in Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's new cabinet, which will take the oath on Sunday evening.

Over 65 ministers are expected to take the oath, based on visuals from a meeting Modi held with his likely council of ministers.

Who Are In?
Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S. Jaishankar, who held the home, defense, finance, and external affairs ministries respectively, along with other senior members such as Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Hardeep Singh Puri, will be part of the new government.

BJP leaders Manohar Lal Khattar, CR Paatil, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, and Ravneet Singh Bittu will be among the new faces in the Union Council of Ministers.

New faces from BJP allies include TDP's Ram Mohan Naidu and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, JD(U)'s Lalan Singh and Ram Nath Thakur, Shiv Sena's Prataprao Jadhav, and other National Democratic Alliance members such as Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi, H. D. Kumaraswamy, Jayant Chaudhary, Ramdas Athawale, and Anupriya Patel.

BJP's Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Pralhad Joshi, Giriraj Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Jitendra Singh, S. P. S. Baghel, Annapurna Devi, Virendra Kumar, Pankaj Chaudhary, Shobha Karandlaje, Krishna Pal Gurjar, and L. Murugan, all outgoing ministers, will also be taking oath, PTI reported, citing sources.

BJP Leaders in Modi 3.0 Cabinet

• Amit Shah
• Ashwini Vaishnaw
• Bhupendra Yadav
• CR Paatil
• Dharmendra Pradhan
• Gajendra Shekhawat
• Hardeep Puri
• Jitin Prasada
• Kiren Rijiju
• L Murugan
• Mansukh Mandaviya
• ML Khattar
• Nirmala Sitharaman
• Nitin Gadkari
• Piyush Goyal
• Prahlad Joshi
• Rajnath Singh
• S Jaishankar
• Shivraj Chouhan
• Suresh Gopi

Leaders from Other Parties in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)

• HD Kumaraswamy
• Jayant Chaudhary
• Lallan Singh
• Pratap Jadhav
• Ram Mohan Naidu
• Sudesh Mahato

BJP's G. Kishan Reddy, Sukanta Majumdar, Rao Inderjit Singh, Nityanand Rai, and Bhagirath Choudhary are also expected to be part of the new government. BJP MPs Jitin Prasada from Uttar Pradesh and Raksha Khadse from Maharashtra are also anticipated to join.

There is speculation within the BJP that its national president J. P. Nadda, whose extended tenure ends this month and who was among those meeting Modi, may also be brought back into the government. However, he might also be present in his capacity as the head of the ruling party. He was a member of the first Modi government before taking over the party's organization in 2019.

Bittu, the grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, who lost the Lok Sabha election, is likely to be inducted due to his profile as the BJP seeks to expand its influence in Punjab. BJP MP from Ranchi Sanjay Seth and Odisha MP Jual Oram, a former Union minister, are also expected to take the oath.

Who Are Out?
Anurag Thakur, the outgoing information and broadcasting minister, who won re-election from Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur constituency, is not expected to be included in the new government. Smriti Irani, who lost in Amethi, and Parshottam Rupala, who won but sparked controversy with his comments on the Rajput community, are also unlikely to be included.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who lost to Shashi Tharoor in a close contest, is also expected to be missing. However, a significant majority of the outgoing ministers are set to continue, according to the visuals shared by official sources.

Who Are Out?

• Ajay Bhatt (won the election)
• Ajay Mishra Teni (lost the election)
• Anurag Thakur (won the election)
• Arjun Munda (lost the election)
• Ashwini Kumar Choubey (did not contest)
• Bhagwat Karad
• Bharti Pawar (lost the election)
• General VK Singh (Retd) (did not contest)
• John Barla
• Kapil Patil (lost the election)
• Meenakshi Lekhi (did not contest)
• Narayan Rane (won the election)
• Nisith Pramanik (lost the election)
• Rajeev Chandrasekhar (lost the election)
• Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
• Raosaheb Danve (lost the election)
• RK Singh (lost the election)
• Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (lost the election)
• Smriti Irani (lost the election)
• Subhas Sarkar (lost the election)