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This is an archive article published on January 29, 2006

PM to keep MEA, leave Finance, Home, Defence untouched; Deora for Aiyar?

The Prime Minister is most likely to keep the External Affairs portfolio in the much-awaited Cabinet reshuffle due on Sunday noon. In the pa...

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The Prime Minister is most likely to keep the External Affairs portfolio in the much-awaited Cabinet reshuffle due on Sunday noon. In the past, the list has been rewritten even after the eleventh hour but this is a possible list and likely portfolios:

Cabinet

Mani Shankar Aiyar: Panchayati Raj,

Youth and Sports

Ambika Soni: Tourism and Culture

Shibu Soren: back in Coal

Sushil Kumar Shinde: Power

Murli Deora: Petroleum

A R Antulay: Minority Affairs

Saifuddin Soz: Water Resources

Prem Gupta and Santosh Mohan Deb: upgraded in current portfolios

Vayalar Ravi: Overseas Affairs

MoS, Independent Charge

G K Vasan: Statistics and Programme

Implementation

Renuka Chaudhary: Moves to Women and Child Development

Oscar Fernandes: without portfolio

Minister of State

Pawan Bansal: Finance

Anand Sharma: MEA

Ajay Maken: Urban Development

M M Pallanraju: MoS, Defence

Chandrashekhar Sahu: Labour

Akhilesh Das: Steel

Ashwani Kumar: Industry

Purandeshwari Devi: HRD

E V K Elangovan: Moves to Textiles

Rao Inderjit: Moves to Defence

Kanti Singh: Moves to Heavy Industry

B K Handique: Moves to Chemical and Fertilisers, Parliamentary Affairs

Dinshaw Patel, Jairam Ramesh, T Subbirami Reddy (portfolios undecided)

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