Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling DMK President MK Stalin said on Saturday that there would be a change in his council of ministers, once again lending credence to reports of the impending elevation of his son and sports and youth welfare minister, Udhyanidhi Stalin, as his deputy in the government.
He was responding to a query from the media at Chennai airport before leaving for the US on a 17-day investment scouting visit. Asked whether there would be a ministerial rejig on his return, the Chief Minister was candid enough to hint that it was very much a possibility.
The meeting is scheduled to take place at the newly renovated Pragati Maidan' convention centre, sources aware of developments said.
In a major Cabinet reshuffle, Arjun Ram Meghwal has replaced Kiren Rijiju as the Union and Justice Minister, a communique from President's Secretariat said on Thursday.
The Speaker Bikram Keshari Arukha, five-time MLA from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s home district of Ganjam, cited personal reasons for resigning from the post.
“Portfolio distribution is also likely to be discussed in the meeting”, informed a party source for what would be the first reshuffle/expansion in the second term of the Narendra Modi government.
Modi's review of the works of his ministers, early next year assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur and Punjab and the COVID-19 pandemic that has been a factor in the internal evaluation of the party's governance and organisational works are likely to weigh heavy in the expected reshuffle.
The 905 region, named after the area code, has the biggest concentration of the Punjabi community in Canada.
The decision to form a new private secretariat is followed by the government’s latest decision to relieve all the provincial governors from their duties.
Smriti Irani will now handle the textile ministry only. MoS Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has been made the new Information and Broadcasting Minister
