Cabinet reshuffle: PM Modi prefers low profile, result-delivering ministers for his core team

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has affected a change governmental leadership by the cabinet reshuffle and portfolio reallocation. He had inherited a team in Delhi, which was mentored by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani.

In 2014, he chose to work with few but rest were kept out of the government positions. The seniors like LK Advani, MM Joshi, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie, and Shanta Kumar were sent to cold storage masquerading as Margdarshak Mandal.

Since the first cabinet reshuffle, PM Modi has worked tirelessly to create his own team at Centre. With Amit Shah as the party president and middle moving into the Cabinet, Modi’s core team has been settled.

The reshuffle not only affects the composition of CCS, CCPA and CCEA it also shifts power away to the faces closely associated with Vajpayee’s dispensation. If one puts Arun Jately, Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh aside, the Cabinet has been re-casted in Modi’s image. The above three have not been superseded but their colleagues have changed. The top three ministers will now work with people who have been politically and administratively authored by Narendra Modi. Administratively, they become equals and the future leadership of …read more