See a wider Cabinet expansion on May 26: Rajdeep Sardesai

Jockeying for key posts in Team Modi has intensified. Sources say BJP President Rajnath Singh will get the Home Ministry while Arun Jaitley could be the new Finance Minister.

National Democratic Alliance leader Narendra Modi will be sworn in as the next Prime Minister of India on Monday, May 26, along with his Cabinet . The swearing in ceremony will take place at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Modi will be the 14th person to be the Prime Minister of India. He was elected as the Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary party leader on Tuesday.

Speaking to CNBC-TV18's Senthil Chengalvarayan and Menaka Doshi, Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief, CNN-IBN said he expects a wider cabinet expansion on the 26th. Jockeying for key posts in Team Modi has intensified. Sources say BJP President Rajnath Singh will get the Home Ministry while Arun Jaitley could be the new Finance Minister.

Sardesai believes the probability of Arun Shourie getting the FM's job is currently not very low.

According to AK Bhattacharya, Editor of Business Standard, Modi should give the finance portfolio to a politician rather than a technocrat.