Guwahati: The swearing-in ceremony of the PM elect-Narendra Modi and his ministers on May 30, 2019 is likely to be more impressive in comparison to 2014, there are speculations going amongst the BJP sources with the addition of fresh new faces in the cabinet ministry to reflect the Prime Minister’s “New India” push.
PM-elect Narendra Modi has also promised to remedy the regional imbalances, so the ministry could see members from all parts of the country, particularly the newly conquered east and the Northeast.
Modi is back in power with a bigger mandate, it is widely expected that prominent world leaders would attend his oath-taking ceremony. However, the government had been silent about the probable guest list so far.
Though there has been no official word on likely faces in the new government, many leaders are of the view that most key members of the previous cabinet will be retained.
There are speculations that Arun Jaitley, who held the finance portfolio in the previous government, may opt out due to some health-related issues, but people close to him have insisted that he has been doing well after undergoing treatment.
Interestingly, there are speculations going amongst the netizens in the social media where they claim that cricketer Gautam Gambhir is likely to hold the portfolio of being the next Sports Minister in the cabinet berth.
“We are expecting many new faces,” a BJP source said.
Also, there are reports that after a recent meeting with his outgoing ministers indicated PM-elect Narendra Modi might make major changes to meet the “new challenges” despite the good performance of many of the incumbents.
“All the senior ministers were present when Modiji spoke of the need to bring in new faces,” a senior BJP politician said. “This means that even senior ministers might be kept out.”
One must also keep in mind that it would be difficult for even the seniors to protest if they are dropped, the party believes.
Meanwhile, Modi on Saturday accused the media of running “false reports with ill intention” about possible cabinet selections and asked his flock not to believe them.
There are high possibilities of two prominent entrants into the alliance are Nitish Kumar’s JDU, which rejoined the NDA in 2017, and the AIADMK. Two JDU members might receive berths, including one of cabinet rank, sources said.
Here is some speculation over the possible new faces who are likely to receive berths in BJP Cabinet Ministry
Sports minister- Gautam Gambhir, Foreign Minister- Smriti Zubin Irani, Finance minister: Jayant Sinha, Defence Minister: Rajiv Pratap Rudi, Home Minister: Amit Shah, Commerce minister: Varun Gandhi, Railways minister: Piyush Goyal, Agriculture minister: Rajnath Singh, Human Resource Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman, Transport Minister: Nitin Gadkari, Industry minister: Arvind Sawant ( SS), Minority’s Affair Minister : Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Civil Aviation’s: Pawan Varma (JDU), Information Broadcasts: Babul Supriyo, Petroleum minister: Kiren Rijiju, Family and Welfare Minister: Anantkumar Hegde, Rural Development Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Women Empowerment Minister: Meenakshi Lekhi, Urban Development Minister: Gopal Shetty, Law Minister: Ravishankar Prasad, Food Processing Minister: Chirag Paswan ( LP), Tourism Minister: Anurag Thakur, Health Minister: J P Nadda, Coal & Mineral Minister: Giriraj Singh, Environment Minister: Sadananda Gowda, Labour minister: Anupriya Patel (AD), Textile Minister: Miss Saroj Pandey, Consumer Affairs Minister: Harkirat Kaur Badal, New president of BJP: Bhupendra Yadav
Note: The Sentinel Digital is not trying to spread any misinformation through this article, the above-mentioned report is just a speculation, there has been no official declaration on the new lists of cabinet ministers from the centre so far.