Union cabinet expansion: Here is the list of new ministers in Modi 2.0

Those who will take oath as ministers include G Kishan reddy, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Bhupender Yadav, Anupriya Patel, Shobha Karandlaje, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt, Anurag Thakur.

Earlier Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who was spearheading the campaign against coronavirus, put in his papers.

His colleagues including Santosh Gangwar, Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', Debasree Chaudhuri, Babul Supriyo and Sanjay Dhotre also tendered their resignations ahead of the first mega cabinet reshuffle in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge criticized the expansion of the Union Cabinet..

"Several Dalits, backward caste members are being made ministers. They are doing it from the point of polls. This is being done to distract people. They are not doing this for the welfare of communities but because of their compulsion," said Kharge.

Here is the list of probable ministers in Modi 2.0

1. Narayan Tatu Rane

2. Sarbananda Sonowal

3. Dr. Virendra Kumar

4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia

5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh

6. Ashwini Vaishnaw

7. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras

8. Kiren Rijiju

9. Raj Kumar Singh

10. Hardeep Singh Puri

11. Mansukh Mandaviya

12. Bhupender Yadav

13. Parshottam Rupala

14. G. Kishan Reddy

15. Anurag Singh Thakur

16. Pankaj Choudhary

17. Anupriya Singh Patel

18. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel

19. Rajeev Chandrasekhar

20. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje

21. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

22. Darshana Vikram Jardosh

23. Meenakshi Lekhi

24. Annapurna Devi

25. Narayanaswamy

26. Kaushal Kishore

27. Jay Bhatt

28. BL Verma

29. Ajay Kumar

30. Chauhan Devusinh

31. Bhagwanth Khuba

32. Kapil Moreshwar Patil

33. Pratima Bhoumik

34. Subhas Sarkar

35. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad

36. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

37. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar

38. Bishweswar Tudu

39. Shantanu Thakur

40. Munjapara Mahendrabhai

41. John Barla

42. Dr. L. Murugan

43. Nisith Pramanik