Singh Union Cabinet expansion delayed
With Young MP eye to be part of Singh second inning of cabinets are Jiten Prasada,Jyotiraditya Scindia, scion of the Scindia family,Manish Tiwari, spokesperson ,Milind Deora, Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, from Thiruvananthapuram are probables to form list along with former CM's wants senior Cabinet rank and keep the PM Singh to sort out squabble with the President of the Congress party.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who had a four-hour-long marathon meeting Monday, deferred their scheduled meeting this morning on finalisation of portfolios for Congress nominees, party sources said.However the meeting between Man Mohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi is convened later today.There is unconfirmed reports that words spread for from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee is bargaining thus demanding one more MoS berth for her party.
Within the Congress there has been internal wriggle for plum portfolios among those already inducted and those former CM needs to be accomodated as senior Cabinet berth,with proper representation to caste and states where Congress has done exceedingly well and those yet to be named to join the ministr in the first installment, only 19 ministers were inducted along with the Prime Minister on Friday and portfolios have been allocated to only six ministers.
Truncated Ministry with DMK chief allies of UPA over the number and of ministerial berths of their intent needs to be thrased out which as per the media reports has been achieved was expected swearing-in this evening is put off to Thursday tomorrow being the death anniversary of Nehru and for reason of Punjab and Bengal in crisis which needs to be attended.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who had a four-hour-long marathon meeting Monday, deferred their scheduled meeting this morning on finalisation of portfolios for Congress nominees, party sources said.However the meeting between Man Mohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi is convened later today.There is unconfirmed reports that words spread for from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee is bargaining thus demanding one more MoS berth for her party.
Within the Congress there has been internal wriggle for plum portfolios among those already inducted and those former CM needs to be accomodated as senior Cabinet berth,with proper representation to caste and states where Congress has done exceedingly well and those yet to be named to join the ministr in the first installment, only 19 ministers were inducted along with the Prime Minister on Friday and portfolios have been allocated to only six ministers.
Truncated Ministry with DMK chief allies of UPA over the number and of ministerial berths of their intent needs to be thrased out which as per the media reports has been achieved was expected swearing-in this evening is put off to Thursday tomorrow being the death anniversary of Nehru and for reason of Punjab and Bengal in crisis which needs to be attended.
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