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
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