State-wise list of Modi's ministers: Hindi belt leads, Nihal Chand the only face from Rajasthan

New Delhi: Narendra Modi's Cabinet is likely to have more members from some key states. Uttar Pradesh, which delivered him 73 out of 80 seats, is likely to get 8-9 Cabinet berths. Madhya Pradesh is likely to get five berths. Karnataka is likely to get four berths, including M Venkaiah Naidu who is Rajya Sabha member from the state. Maharashtra is likely to get five berths.

Modi is likely to include MPs from the Northeast and other smaller states too. Kerala and West Bengal are likely to go unrepresented in the Cabinet.

More than half of the ministers are from Hindi-speaking states. South India is likely to get six berths and the Western India is likely to get 10 berths, Central India 6, East and North Eastern India are likely to get six berths and the remaining 16 or 17 berths are likely to go to North.

Rajasthan, which delivered 25 MPs out of 25 has got just a single berth for its Lok Sabha members. Nihal Chand will be sworn-in as the Minister of State in the Cabinet.

Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand has not got any berth for their elected Lok Sabha members. The BJP has won all 4 and all 5 Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Telangana, which is going to be India's 29th state on June 1 has not also got any berths. West Bengal, which has sent two BJP MPs is also going to be unrepresented.

Surprisingly, Neiphiu Rio who quit as Nagaland chief minister to become a Central minister has not been included.

Among the total 45 ministers, Nirmala Seetharaman, Radha Mohan and Prakash Javadekar are not the members of Parliament. Javadekar's term expired last year.

Total 24 Cabinet Ministers, including the PM:

Narendra Modi - Likely to keep Defence with him - Gujarat and UP

Rajnath Singh - LS MP from UP

Arun Jaitley - RS member from Gujarat

Sushma Swaraj - MP from Madhya Pradesh

Nitin Gadkari - MP from Maharashtra

Venkiah Naidu - RS MP from Karnataka

D V Sadanand Gowda - LS MP from Karnataka - Bangalore North

Ram Vilas Paswan - LJP MP from Bihar

Gopinath Munde - BJP MP from Maharashtra

Kalraj Mishra - BJP MP from UP

Maneka Gandhi - BJP MP from UP

Ananthkumar - BJP MP from Karnataka - Bangalore South

Ravi Shankar Prasad - BJP MP - RS. From Bihar

Ashok Gajapati Raju - TDP - AP

Ananth Gite - Shiv Sena - Maharashtra

Harsimrat Kaur Badal - SAD - Punjab

Narendra Singh Tomar - MP from MP

Joel Oram - MP from Odisha

Thavarchand Gehlot - MP from MP

Smriti Irani - RS member from Gujarat

Uma Bharti - BJP MP from UP

Najma Heptullah - RS member

Radha Mohan Singh - BJP MP from Bihar

Dr. Harsh Vardhan - BJP MP from Delhi

MoS Independent - Total 10

V K Singh - BJP MP from UP

Santosh Gangwar - BJP MP from MP

Sripad Naik - BJP MP from Goa

Dharmendra Pradhan - BJP RS member from Odisha

Sonwal - MP from Assam

Javdekar - From Maharashtra. Not a member of the Parliament.

Piyush Goel - RS Member - From Mumbai

Jitendra Singh - BJP MP from J&K

Nirmala Seetharaman - From TN/AP - Not a member of the Parliament

Rao Inderjit Singh - BJP MP from Haryana

MoS total 11

G M Siddeshwara - BJP MP from Karnataka

Manoj Sinha - BJP MP UP

Upendra Kushwaha - BJP MP from Bihar

Pon Radhakrishnan - BJP MP from TN

Kiren Rijuju - BJP MP from Arunachal Pradesh

Krishan Pal Gujar - BJP MP Haryana

Sanjeev Kumar - BJP MP from UP

Balyan Mansukhbhai Vasava - BJP MP from Gujarat

Raosaheb Dadarao Dhanve - BJP MP from Maharashtra

Vishnudev Sai - BJP MP Chhattisgarh

Sudarshan Bhagat - BJP MP Jharkhand