President Pranab Mukherjee arrives amid fanfare at the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan for the Modi government's Cabinet reshuffle.

BJP lawmaker Arjun Ram Meghwal set off on his bicycle this morning for Rashtrapati Bhavan where he will take oath along with 18 other leaders in a crucial expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers on Tuesday morning. A total of 19 ministers will be inducted into the Cabinet today.

Sources said all those inducted today will be junior ministers or ministers of state and not of cabinet rank, though some may be given independent charge of their ministries. There will be no change in the top four portfolios - Defence, Home, Finance and External Affairs, they said.

In the front row at Durbar Hall are VP Hamid Ansari, Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, Maneka Gandhi.

Amit Shah, straddled by PM Modi and Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari.