CABINET RESUFFLE IN CENTRAL|PM AND SONIA PLAN FOR STATE ELECTIONS

CABINET RESUFFLE

             RESUFFLED:Five ministers have been sacked, including MS Gill who was in charge of Sports and looked on a sticky wicket ever since the CWG controversies happened. The others are BK Handique, veteran Assam leader, Kantilal Bhuria, who loses the Tribal Affairs Ministry, Arun S Yadav from Madhya Pradesh who was the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries and Sai Prathap Annayyagari, who was Minister of State, Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, an Andhra man known to be close to Jagan Mohan Reddy. 

            In other minor changes, Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma will hold additional charge of Textiles; Parliamentary Affairs Minister PK Bansal will have additional charge of Water Resources and the new Law Minister, Salman Khursheed, will also be in charge of Minority Affairs.

MAJOR CHANGES IN THE CABINET 

• Jairam Ramesh moves from Environment to Rural Development
• Jayanthi Natarajan is Minister of State with Independent Charge for Environment
• Vilasrao Deshmukh moves from Rural Development to Science and Technology
• Veerappa Moily moves from Law to Corporate Affairs
• Salman Khursheed takes over as Law Minister with additional charge of Minority Affairs

MINISTERS WHO'VE BEEN DROPPED

 M S Gill, B K Handique, Kantilal Bhuria, A Sai Prathap and Arun S Yadav