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Narendra Modi is all set to be elected leader of the BJP and NDA parliamentary coalition on Tuesday as jockeying for positions in the new Cabinet gained momentum on Monday.
The 63—year—old Gujarat Chief Minister will meet President Pranab Mukherjee tomorrow in the company of NDA leaders after his election as leader of the grouping that will enable the President to invite him to form the government, which may be sworn in by the weekend.
A number of names of top BJP leaders including Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Murli Manohar Joshi and Venkaiah Naidu were doing the rounds for possible inclusion in Modi’s Cabinet. Party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi could be the sole Muslim face in the Cabinet.
There is speculation that former minister Arun Shourie could be in the race for Finance Ministry while Jaitley may get External Affairs.
Besides, some leaders belonging to allies like Shiv Sena, TDP, Akali Dal and LJP may also be included.
Modi will first be elected BJP Parliamentary Party leader at a meeting in the central hall of Parliament around noon and shortly later by the NDA MPs. After this, he will meet the President along with a delegation of coalition leaders, who will convey to him their decision to choose Modi as their leader.
For the third successive day, a series of meetings took place in the BJP, RSS and at Gujarat Bhavan, where Modi is putting on.
For the first time since the results were declared, Swaraj called on Modi in Gujarat Bhawan, the nerve—centre of activities these days. Close aides Jaitley and Amit Shah, besides Kalyan Singh met the Prime Minister to-be separately.
Vaiko, an ally of BJP in Tamil Nadu, who lost the election, also met Modi, while YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy also called on him and extended “issue based” support to his government.
Sources claim that Modi kept to himself the strategy over his Cabinet formation.
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