Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Cabinet reshuffle was about the Prime Minister asserting himself. He took away portfolio of sports from Mani Shankar Aiyar and removed four ministers of state.
The surprise package of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's latest cabinet reshuffle - former chief election commissioner M S Gill being brought in as a union minister.
Gill will replace Mani Shankar Aiyar as the minister for sports and youth affairs - a ministry that Aiyar himself has never desired.
"I am neither concerned with, nor interested in this particular post. I am doing my job, and if the Prime Minister feels that I should be somewhere else I'd be. I will happily accept that constitutional order," he had said in an interview.
The fact that Gill has worked as a secretary of the Indian Olympic committee in Punjab also came handy.
But this step also had a significant political implication. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acting tough against non-perfomers.
Aiyer is not the only one who has been made to pay for his reluctance to work. Four MoSs in fact have been made to resign specifically for non-performance.
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