New Delhi: Indian Union Council of Ministers will be reshuffled on Tuesday, Indian media reported on Monday.
This follows a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday in which final touches were understood to have been given to the proposed changes.
This was the fourth meeting of the two leaders in recent days, about 10 to 12 ministers including new candidates from Trinamool Congress and Congress are likely to be involved in the reshuffle.
Sources said that Trinamool Congress Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandhyopadhyay may get a berth and could be inducted as minister of state.
There is also expected that incumbent minister of state finance in-charge of revenue SS Palanimanickam may be upgraded to the cabinet rank in the wake of resignations by his DMK colleagues A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran from the cabinet.
The talk in Trinamool Congress is that Mamata Banerjee could entrust senior leader Dinesh Trivedi with the railways portfolio she vacated after becoming West Bengal chief minister.
DMK may pick for the upgrade in view of the fact that it is said to be not in a mood to name new entrants into the government at this juncture when two of its ministers had to resign under a cloud and party chief Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi is in jail.
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