Ahead of possible cabinet reshuffle, PM Modi to review performance of ministers today

Ahead of a possible Union Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet his council of ministers to review their performance.

According to reports, ministers are expected to present details of work they have done in the past two years, since the BJP-led government came to power.

Speculations over the reshuffle have been rife after party chief Amit Shah met Modi on Wednesday.

Though there was no official word on what transpired in the meeting, party sources played down its significance, saying such an exercise, which is also attended often by Union Ministers Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj, happens almost every month.

There has been a strong buzz in the party for some time about a reshuffle. Uttar Pradesh, which goes to polls early next year, is likely to get more representation besides Assam, whose Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was a Union Minister before he returned to lead the state government. dna had earlier reported, that intense lobbying has begun in Delhi.

Sources had said that the reshuffle was on the cards with just around a month to go for the monsoon session of Parliament. They also said the current reshuffle will focus on Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab with around eight new faces expected from these three states. 

Even as nobody is privy to PM’s plans, highly-placed sources said discussions so far within the corridors of power suggest that portfolios of those in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) that involves home, defence, external affairs and finance will remain unchanged.