Manmohan Singh, Sonia to meet again ahead of cabinet reshuffle

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi again on Sunday to discuss the imminent cabinet reshuffle, party sources said. They met on Saturday too.

Sunday's will be their fourth meeting in three weeks.

According to a party source, the reshuffle will be effected the coming week, perhaps as early as Monday.

Congress sources said the big four ministers - Mukherjee, defence minister AK Antony, home minister P Chidambaram and external affairs minister SM Krishna - are unlikely to be touched though the initial thinking was to move out Krishna.

The reshuffle may see both Dinesh Trivedi and Mukul Roy of the Trinamool Congress continuing in the cabinet.

In his interaction with a group of editors on June 29, Manmohan Singh said the cabinet reshuffle was a "work in progress".