Television and other media reports on Monday said that senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley is likely to be given charge of Finance Ministry and additional charge of the Defense Ministry in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet.
The formal announcement of the ministries allotted to the different ministers has not yet been made by the President's secretariat.
The reports further stated that Sushma Swaraj might be given charge of the Ministry of External Affairs and BJP president Rajnath Singh charge of the Home Ministry.
According to the reports and sources, the likely list of Ministers with their expected portfolios is as follows:
Sushma Swaraj - expected to get Ministry of External Affairs
Ananth Kumar - expected to get Parliamentary Affairs + additional charge
Nitin Gadkari - expected to get Surface Transport Ministry and Shipping Ministry
Sadanand Gowda - expected to get Railways Ministry
Venkaiah Naidu - expected to get Urban Development Ministry
Ravi Shankar Prasad - expected to get Telecom Ministry, Law and Justice Ministry
Maneka Gandhi - expected to get Women and Child Development Ministry
Najma Heptullah - expected to get Ministry of Minorities
Smriti Irani - expected to get HRD Ministry
Radha Mohan Singh - expected to get Agriculture Ministry
Nirmala Sitharaman - expected to get MoS Commerce
Piyush Goel - expected to get MoS Power (Independent)
Prakash Javadekar - expected to get MoS Information and Broadcasting
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