The swearing in ceremony of the new government will take place at around 6.30 pm today. The first round will have 19 ministers who will take their oath along with Dr Manmohan Singh. Mr Singh will become the Prime Minister of India for the second consecutive time, a privilege that was enjoyed only by Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

The list of 19 cabinet ministers to be sworn in is as follows

1. Pranab Mukherjee (Congress)
2. P Chidambaram (Congress)
3. Jaipal Reddy (Congress)
4. Gulam Nabi Azad (Congress)
5. Veerappa Moily (Congress)
6. Kamal Nath (Congress)
7. Sharad Pawar (NCP)
8. Sushil Kumar Shinde (Congress)
9. BK Handique (Congress)
10. SM Krishna (Congress)
11. Mamta Banerjee (TC)
12. Murali Deora (Congress)
13. Kapil Sibil (Congress)
14. AK Antony (Congress)
15. CP Joshi (Congress)
16. Anand Sharma (Congress)
17. Meira Kumar (Congress)
18. Ambika Soni (Congress)
19. Vyalar Ravi (Congress)

The second round of ministers will be sworn in on Tuesday. Some of the names hinted are Salman Khursheed, Jitin Prasada, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jairam Ramesh and Farooq Abdullah.

It may be noted that Arjun Singh (Congress) and Sibu Soren (JMM) are dropped from the Congress’ list of ministers.