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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