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...

Written by Shishir Gupta

New Delhi | January 29, 2006 12:00 AM IST

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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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