The reshuffle and expansion in the council of ministers is also expected to make way for organisational changes in the BJP, which in any case is due.
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A high-level Bharatiya Janata Party meeting will take place on Monday at the party’s headquarter.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to reshuffle his cabinet on Tuesday morning with poll-bound states expected to get representation in the council of ministers, sources told HT.
Ahead of crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, more OBC and Dalit faces are likely to be inducted in the Cabinet and Amit Shah’s team of office bearers.
The Prime Minister held a almost four hour-long marathon meeting of his Council of Ministers, at which each Ministry presented its performance report of the past two years and plans for the future. Last week, Fadnavis had said that the state Cabinet expansion would be held before the Monsoon session and immediately after the expansion of the Union Cabinet.
Including Modi, there are now 64 ministers in the federal cabinet. Sources say PM Modi may induct new faces in his council.
Before leaving for Africa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to fill the vacant post in the Cabinet. There is also a vacancy in the Council of Ministers after Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal became the Chief Minister of Assam.
PM Modi had been holding discussions with BJP president Amit Shah for last two months.
This will be the National Democratic Front government’s second Cabinet reshuffle since coming to power in May 2014.
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No changes are indicated at the North and South block and the top four portfolios-home, finance, external affairs and defence-are unlikely to be touched.
