Who Will Occupy Key Posts in Modi’s Cabinet?

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As India’s Bharatiya Janata Party appeared headed for a thumping victory in the federal elections on Friday, attention shifted to those who will take up key posts in the next cabinet.

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will lead the team but the party’s spokesmen refused to divulge names before India’s President Pranab Mukherjee formally invites Mr. Modi to form the government.

This has not stopped political pundits from speculating about Mr. Modi’s A-team, or those who will help recharge Asia’s third-largest economy.

Here are a few names doing the rounds:

Narendra Modi

Along with the post of Prime Minister, he may take charge of some key ministries, if party veterans like L.K Advani do not join his cabinet. Since the party looks like it is headed to majority in the lower of Parliament, Mr. Modi will not have to negotiate to keep the peace with his allies by offering them the top jobs.

Senior leader of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for Amritsar’s parliamentary seat Arun Jaitley, center, speaks during an election campaign event in Amritsar.
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Arun Jaitley

BJP’s frontline strategist Arun Jaitley is widely seen as a frontrunner to succeed P. Chidambaram as the next finance minister. Like Mr. Chidambaram, Mr. Jaitley is a lawyer by profession. He is the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, or upper house of Parliament and has years of experience managing party affairs. He has been a strong opposition voice criticizing the economic policies of the Congress-led government on the floor of the Rajya Sabha.

Senior Leader of India’s main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party Sushma Swaraj delivers a speech in the lower house of Parliament.
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Sushma Swaraj

The Cicero of India’s lower house of Indian Parliament was barely seen during the election campaign that was led by Mr. Modi but Ms. Swaraj, known for her exhausting style of speech is likely to manage the External Affairs portfolio.

Manohar Parrikar

Goa Chief minister Manohar Parrikar is known to ride his scooter to work. He may be given the difficult task of managing India’s Home ministry that oversees India’s internal security and its large police and paramilitary forces.

Bhartiya Janta Party President, Rajnath Singh.
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Rajnath Singh

BJP President Rajnath Singh could get the Defense ministry, a department which traditionally goes to a senior leader of the ruling party. Mr. Singh, a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has under previous BJP-led governments handled the agriculture and transport ministries.

Arun Shourie

Arun Shourie, 73 , who worked as a journalist once could be the country’s next trade minister. The last time the BJP occupied the seat of power in New Delhi until 2004 he was a federal minister for communication and information technology.

Key role for other veterans:

Murli Manohar Joshi could be the speaker of Lok Sabha. Amit Shah, a key aide of Mr. Modi may hold the charge as a junior minister in the Prime Minister’s office due to his proximity to Mr. Modi.

The Aviation ministry is likely to go to Rajiv Pratap Rudy, a commercial pilot, who held charge of the ministry from 2002 to 2003 during a brief rule of the BJP. The ministry of law and justice may go to Ravi Shankar Prasad, and the health ministry to Harsh Vardhan, a medical doctor best known as one of the pioneers of polio vaccination program in India.

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in my opinion the cabinet shoud be like this....

PM ..- Narendra Modi.
Home Minister - Subramaniam swamy
Defence minister - VK singh
Law minister - Kiran Bedi
finance minister - Arun jaitley
women health and children minister - sushma swaraj..

all are welcome to submit their dream BJP cabinet for our next govt.