New Delhi: A mini Cabinet reshuffle is in the offing, according to sources, after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sacked Pawan Kumar Bansal as the Railway Minister and Ashwani Kumar as the Law Minister. Telecom MinisterKapil Sibal has got additional charge of Law Ministry while CP Joshi has once again got the Railways Ministry.
A meeting of senior Congress leaders has been called by Congress President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the reshuffle. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unlikely to be part of the meeting. Congress leader Ahmed Patel is expected the brief the Prime Minister later. It is likely that the reshuffle may happen next week.
Speculation is now rife over other government officials facing the axe. The fate of the Coal Ministry and PMO officials and A-G Ghoolam Vahanvati who attended the meeting with former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, where changes were made to the CBI status report on coal allocations, also hangs in the balance.
Meanwhile, the Congress party has given full credit to party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi for taking action against the tainted ministers. "Congress President and Rahul Gandhi never tolerate corruption and that is why they took the resignation of the two ministers," Congress spokesperson Bhata Charan Das said....
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01:37 PM, May 11, 2013
A Special Court in Udaipur has asked the ACB to register a case against Union minister and Rajasthan Cricket Association president CP Joshi. ...
03:58 PM, Feb 15, 2013
New Delhi: All AC train fares, freight tariff and cost of food at railway stations will go up from October 1 with the coming into force of service tax on them. This follows a decision taken at a meeting between Railway Minister CP Joshi and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Fares of AC First Class, Executive Class, AC-2 tier, AC-3 tier, AC Chair Car will go up by 3.708 per cent...
04:49 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet reshuffle, that was expected to take place this week, has been postponed, say sources. The reshuffle will now take place after October 14, they add. The reshuffle was necessitated after key ally, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), withdrew its support to the ruling coalition government, the United Progressive Alliance, (UPA), leaving many of the ministries vacant. One of the key ministries to get a new head will...
01:43 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday held parleys with some union ministers and senior party leaders amid indications of a Cabinet reshuffle. Those who met Sonia at her official residence at 10 Janpath included Road and Transport Minister CP Joshi, who has been given additional charge of Railways after resignation of Trinamool Congress ministers including Mukul Roy from the government. Sonia also had a meeting with Maharashtra Chief...
02:43 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Newly-appointed Railway Minister CP Joshi on Monday said safety of passengers will be his top priority, along with modernisation and improvement in passenger amenities. Joshi, who has been given additional charge of railways after TMC withdrew support to the UPA government, said he will set the agenda for his ministry after holding discussions with railways officials. Talking to reporters after his maiden visit to Rail Bhawan in Delhi,...
11:52 AM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Union minister CP Joshi on Monday formally took charge as the new Railway Minister until the Cabinet reshuffle takes place. Joshi was given the additional charge of the Railways on Saturday, a day after Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy quit the post after his party chief Mamata Banerjee withdrew support from the government. Joshi already holds the portfolio of Road Transport and Highways Ministry. The Cabinet reshuffle is...
10:54 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Union Minister CP Joshi already holds the portfolio of Road Transport and Highways ministry. ...
09:29 PM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister CP Joshi was on Saturday given additional charge of Railway Ministry, a day after the resignation of Mukul Roy and other Trinamool Congress ministers. According to Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson Venu Rajamony, Joshi was assigned with the additional charge by President Pranab Mukherjee on the advice of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The announcement came on a day the Prime Minister met the President amid speculation of a...
06:45 PM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: As the UPA government on Tuesday completes its third year in office in second term, the road transport ministry on Tuesday exuded confidence that it will achieve the target of constructing 20 km roads per day before elections in 2014. "Before we will go for elections, we will achieve the target (of constructing 20 km roads per day). I am very much confident about it," Road Transport Minister...
04:27 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reshuffled key ministries on Wednesday. Is it a veiled warning to ministers like CP Joshi, Kamal Nath and Murli Deora? This was the first reshuffle since the UPA returned to power in May 2009. CP Joshi, Kamal Nath and Murli Deora " the three cabinet ministers whose portfolios changed for different reasons. Murli Deora's long stint as petroleum minister ended due to his alleged...
07:27 AM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will juggle his team on Wednesday. Will young faces push out heavyweights? This the first reshuffle in UPA II and comes in the backdrop of a sharp decline in its image. While the vacancies caused by exit of Prithviraj Chavan, Shashi Tharoor will be filled, its the performance quotient which will be the key. Sources indicate that some ministers who failed to reach the...
06:56 PM, Jan 18, 2011
New Delhi: Days after rejecting the National Advisory Council (NAC) demand for matching the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) with minimum wages, the Government has now agreed to link the wages with inflation. This would mean a 17 per cent to 30 per cent increase in the present wage of Rs 100 per day. The National Advisory Council headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi had wanted the...
04:40 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Video footage available with CNN-IBN shows CP Joshi sharing dais the man who allegedly paid money to get Sohrabuddin killed. ...
08:00 AM, Aug 01, 2010
The exchange of views happened at a debate, "Can Rural Reporting Be Sexy." ...
08:49 PM, Jan 26, 2010
NREGA's audit in Rajasthan has found irregularities worth Rs 1.3 crore. ...
09:55 AM, Oct 14, 2009
He spoke to CNN-IBN correspondent Aasim Khan. ...
05:55 PM, May 22, 2009
