PM meets Sonia, cabinet reshuffle likely next week
July 9th, 2011 - 3:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday to discuss a likely cabinet reshuffle next week, party sources said. It was their third meeting in three weeks.
“The reshuffle is likely next week, may be as early as Monday,” a Congress leader told IANS.
The two leaders are learnt to have discussed the reshuffle at Saturday’s meeting.
With Dayanidhi Maran resigning Thursday as textiles minister, a cabinet reshuffle has become further necessary, the party sources said.
President Pratibha Patil returned to Delhi Friday after a week-long stay in Andhra Pradesh and the government can now effect the reshuffle any time.
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