PM Modi swearing-in ceremony: Here's a list of ministers who will take oath today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new Council of Ministers is about to take oath in a few hours from now. Reports so far have maintained that the new Cabinet under PM Modi will have a lot of new faces, and will be a lot younger than the old one too.

Amit Shah, the present BJP chief and the newly elected Gandhinagar MP is expected to be given a significant portfolio in the new Union Cabinet. Smriti Irani, who wrestled the Amethi seat from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, is also likely to be given a major responsibility in the new Modi Cabinet.

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Here's a list of ministers who are likely to take oath with PM Modi today:

1. Amit Shah, Gandhinagar MP, Gujarat
2. Hardeep Singh Puri, Rajya Sabha
3. Nitin Gadkari, Nagpur MP, Maharashtra
4. Arwind Sawant (Shiv Sena), Mumbai South MP, Maharashtra
5. Narendra Singh Tomar, Muraina MP, Madhya Pradesh
6. Subrat Pathak, Kannauj MP, Uttar Pradesh
7. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Jodhpur MP, Rajasthan
8. DV Sadanad Gowda, Bengaluru North MP, Karnataka
9. Rajnath Singh, Lucknow MP, Uttar Pradesh
10. Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bikaner MP, Rajasthan
11. Prakash Javadekar, Rajya Sabha
12. Ramdas Athawle, Rajya Sabha
13. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rajya Sabha
14. Babul Supriyo, Asansol MP, West Bengal
15. Angadi Suresh Channabasappa, Belgaum MP, Karnataka
16. Dr Jitendra Singh, Udhampur MP, Jammu and Kashmir
17. Piyush Goyal, Rajya Sabha
18. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Patna Sahib MP, Bihar
19. G Kishan Reddy, Secundrabad MP, Telangana
20. Prahlad Joshi, Dharwad MP, Karnataka
21. Nirmala Sitharaman, Rajya Sabha
22. Smriti Irani, Amethi MP, Uttar Pradesh
23. Prahlad Patel, Damoh MP, Madhya Pradesh
24. Raveendranath Kumar, P (AIADMK), Theni MP, Tamil Nadu
25. Purshotam Rupala, Rajya Sabha
26. Mansukh Mandavia, Palitana MP, Gujarat
27. Rao Inderajit Singh, Gurugram MP, Haryana
28. Krishan Pal Gurjar, Faridabad MP, Haryana
29. Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal), Mirzapur MP, Uttar Pradesh
30. Kiran Rijiju, Arunachal West MP, Arunachal Pradesh
31. Kailash Chaudhry, Barmer MP, Rajasthan
32. Sanjeev Baliyan, Mujaffarnagar MP, Uttar Pradesh
33. RCP Singh (JD(U)),Rajya Sabha
34. Nityanand Rai, Ujiyarpur MP , Bihar
35. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Rajya Sabha
36. Debashree Chaudhuri, Raiganj MP, West Bengal
37. Ramesh Pokhiriyal Nishank, Haridwar MP, Uttarakhand.
38. Mansukh Vasava, Bharuch MP, Gujarat.
39. Rameshwar Teli, Dibrugarh MP, Assam
40. Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD), Bathinda MP, Punjab
41. Sushma Swaraj, Rajya Sabha
42. Som Prakash, Hoshiarpur MP, Punjab
43. Santosh Gangwar, Bareilly MP, Uttar Pradesh
44. Ram Vilas Paswan (LJP), Rajya Sabha