New Delhi: With Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee being named as the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government's candidate for President poll, there will a major reshuffle of the Cabinet. Sources say Mukherjee could step down as the Finance Minister on June 24 after his nomination.
India could soon have new Finance, Home and Defence ministers if Mukherjee become the President of India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to keep the finance portfolio for the time.
Mukherjee is also the Leader of the Lok Sabha and this position could be taken up by either Home Minister P Chidambaram or Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde. There is a growing view in the government and the Congress to have a Muslim as the Home Minister. Law & Justice and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid along with Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad are the probable candidates.
President poll and the likely reshuffle was discussed during a meeting on Friday at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and attended by Mukherjee, Chidamabaram, Khurshid, and Human Resource Development and Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal.
The portfolios of Sibal and Commerce & Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma could also be changed.
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In the parliamentary system a cabinet shuffle or reshuffle is an informal term for an event that occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet.
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Mukherjee was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha in July 1969 and was re-elected in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999. He rose through a series of cabinet posts to become the Finance Minister of India in 1982. He served as the Finance Minister of ...
Salman Khurshid is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress, a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.
He belongs to the Farrukhabad area. He is ...
Ghulam Nabi Azad (born March 7, 1949 in Jammu and Kashmir, India) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. He was the Parliamentary Affairs Minister of India in the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh until October 27 ...
Anand Sharma is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
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