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Cabinet Reshuffle..Kerala Scored… 22 Jan, 2011 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces union cabinet reshuffling. K.C.Venugopal, M.P from Alappey, has got the position of Power of Minister. Beni Prasad Varma and Aswini Kumar have got selection along with K.C.Venugopal, to the Union Cabinet. Praful Patel has moved from Civil Aviation to Heavy industries and Public Enterprises while Salman Khursheed has been moved from corporate affairs to water resources. Sreeprakash Jaiswal has retained coal while he moves up to Cabinet. Maken, who was Minister of States of home affairs, now gets youth affairs and sports as MoS Independent charge. Prof K V Thomas, who was MoS consumer affairs, food and public distribution, has been elevated in the same department as MoS with Independent charge. S. Jaypal Reddy who was on the charge of Urban Development has got the charge of Oil Corporation, Uraban Development which is under Jaypal Reddy, is now shifted to Kamal Nath. Nobody is omitted from the minisry and important departments like Defense, Home, Foreign affairs etc have no changes. The reshuffling has greater importance and the consideration that Kerala got has significance on behalf of the forth coming Election. |