After a marathon six-hour meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, which ended at 0200 IST on Saturday, Prime Minister-designate Manmohan Singh was this morning finalising his council of ministers to be sworn-in at 1730 IST.
At the time of filing this report, Rashtrapati Bhavan had not been informed about the number of ministers to be sworn in. Sources said it could be 60.
Indications were that Pranab Mukherjee may get home, Natwar Singh external affairs, Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi parliamentary affairs and Manmohan Singh may keep finance to himself