Small and compact Cabinet for Narendra Modi

Over 24 cabinet ministers, 11 ministers of state and 10 independent charges will be sworn-in today along with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi.

Although, the formal announcement is yet to be made, the list of cabinet ministers- include names of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu, Sadanand Gowda, Uma Bharti, Najma Heptullah, Gopinath Munde, Ramvilas Paswan, Kalraj Mishra, and 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, and Dr. Harshvardhan will also form a part of the list, according to sources.

The list of independent charges include names of party leaders V K Singh, Rao Inderjit Singh, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Shripad Naik, Dharmendra Pradhan, Sarbananda Sonowal, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goel, Dr.Jitendra Singh, and Nirmala Sitharaman.

"Formal announcements of cabinet ministers will be made later," said party leader Kiran Rijiju.

Earlier in the day, all probable ministers of the BJP met Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi.

All arrangements for the swearing-in ceremony of 63-year-old Modi, who led BJP to an astounding victory in the Lok Sabha polls, have been made.

President Pranab Mukherjee will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Modi and his council of Ministers in the presence of a host of leaders.