Rashtrapati Bhavan will get the final list of possible inductions into the council of Ministers at 9 pm (after PM's dinner meet with Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah).

There have been a number of phone calls and meetings between the BJP President and ministers with sources saying at least 50 Union Ministers made RAX calls on secret lines meant for Union Ministers.

Newsmen who cover the BJP beat would have got the maximum number of phone calls from BJP ministers who want to scope out whether they are in or out.


Prime Ministser Narendra Modi plans to induct at least 15 new faces into his Council of Ministers. Presently, the Modi government has 66 ministers but the provision is for 82, therefore Modi wants to keep the council of Ministers strength between 80-82.

So much for the PM's promises of minimum government, maximum governance.

Modi has kept Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand and Punjab in mind which triggered to go in for a major shuffle. Politically speaking this new faces in council of ministers will stay upto 2019. Modi has kept this in mind to go in for polls with these faces