Manohar Parrikar, Suresh Prabhu and Jayant Sinha could be inducted into the Union Cabinet, the news channel reported quoting sources.
Manohar Parrikar, who was summoned to Delhi on Wednesday, met BJP president Amit Shah amid reports that he may be inducted into the Union Cabinet as defence minister.
The Goa CM is also likely to meet PM Narendra Modi.
Asked about the speculation that he may be inducted into the Cabinet, Parrikar said, "I can comment on it only after meeting the Prime Minister. Let the Prime Minister who has invited me comment."
Parrikar, who met Shah at his residence, left for Delhi in the morning cancelling a Cabinet meeting that was to take up the issue of mining lease policy.
Haryana BJP leader Virendra Singh, a prominent Jat face of the party who left Congress to join it before Haryana assembly elections, also met Amit Shah on Wednesday, according to a PTI report.
Meanwhile, the news of Manohar Parrikar taking over as defence minister has created ripples in Goa.
The summoning of Parrikar, state party president Vijay Tendulkar and organising secretary Satish Dhond to Delhi on Wednesday for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah has only lent credence to the rumour that Parrikar's induction in the central Cabinet is nearly certain.
BJP state vice-president Wilfred Mesquita told IANS that if Parrikar is made a central Cabinet minister, the parting would indeed be sad.
"If orders comes, he will have to go ... Parting in life is sad. We can never be happy. But if someone goes for better prospects, it is a nice thing," Mesquita said.
Congress in Goa hit out at Parrikar and said he was trying to escape the mess in Goa created by his government.
Congress Rajya Sabha member from Goa, Shantaram Naik, told IANS that Parrikar's elevation was "most certain".
"Parrikar himself was lobbying for a Cabinet position because he has made a mess of affairs in Goa. Whether it's his inability to resolve the mining problem, law and order, etc. The defence portfolio is his escape ticket from Goa," Naik said.
The social media has also been agog with the possibility of Parrikar's elevation.
"Great, he has excellent administrative skills," says Samir Talkar on a popular Facebook group Goa+. Others are sceptical, asking whether his trademark 'U' turns on decisions related to state administration will now be a regular feature in the Union defence ministry.
Others like Rajesh Mandrekar wonder on the same group about what would happen to the BJP in Goa if Parrikar, known as the only "credible" face in the party's state unit, heads for Delhi.
Mesquita has an answer ready for such sceptics.
The BJP in Goa, he says, is brimming with chief ministerial talent. "We have got so many. We will have to go in alphabetical order," he said.
Party sources said that the names of current deputy chief minister Francis D'Souza and speaker of the Goa legislative assembly Rajendra Arlekar are in the reckoning for the chief minister's position, should Parrikar's elevation to Centre takes place.
(With inputs from PTI, IANS)
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