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  • Cabinet expansion cannot cover up government’s wrong policies: BSP chief Mayawati

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: A day after the Union Cabinet expansion, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday said the exercise would neither cover up the wrong policies, activities and other shortcomings of the government nor divert the attention of people from it.

    2. साथ ही, यूपी की भाजपा सरकार भी यहाँ जनहित व जनकल्याण के सभी मोर्चे पर अधिकांश विफल ही रही है और कोरोना प्रकोप में तो इनकी नीति व कार्यशैली तथा इनके अन्य हवा-हवाई वादों व घोषणाओं आदि से यहाँ की समस्त जनता काफी दुःखी है।
    — Mayawati (@Mayawati) July 8, 2021

    “The elaborate expansion and reshuffle done in the Union Cabinet can neither cover up the wrong policies, activities and other shortcomings of the government, nor can it divert the people’s attention from it. The people of the country are waiting for a change at the right time,” she said in tweets in Hindi.

    “At the same time, the BJP government in UP has also failed on all fronts of public interest and public welfare. All the people are very sad due to its policies, working style, tall promises and announcements during the Covid outbreak,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.

    In a major overhaul, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted several new members in his cabinet and dropped 12 ministers, including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar.

  • Cabinet 2021: Five-time MP Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma gets ministerial berth

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Sworn in as a Union minister for the first time on Wednesday, five-time Lok Sabha MP Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma hails from a small place in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh. Yadav (63) had become an MLA in 1991.

    Chaudhary got elected to the Lok Sabha five times–in 1996, 1998, 2004, 2014 and 2019–from the Jalaun constituency. In 2001, he became vice-president of the Uttar Pradesh BJP’s SC Morcha and a decade later, he became its president.

    As an MP, he was a member of the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

  • Cabinet reshuffle: Narayan Rane’s journey from Shiv Sena ‘shakha pramukh’ to Union minister

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Having spent the better part of his political career in the Shiv Sena, Narayan Rane has come a long way, leaving two parties and forming his own outfit for a while, before joining hands with the BJP and becoming a Union minister.

    Rane (69) began his political career as a ‘shakha pramukh’ (local ward chief) in the Sena and rose up the ranks to become chief minister at the fag end of the Shiv Sena-BJP government’s term in 1999.

    Not known to mince words, the Maratha leader having pockets of influence in the coastal Konkan region, was picked by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray as chief minister when he decided to remove the genial Manohar Joshi ahead of the 1999 assembly elections.

    However,, Thackeray expelled Rane from the Sena in July 2005 for “anti-party activities” after he alleged that tickets and posts were for sale in the Shiv Sena.

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    Rane joined the Congress in August 2005 and quit it in September 2017. “I waited for 12 years.When I found that there was no scope for me in the Congress, I decided to quit from the primary membership of the party and membership of the legislative council,” he had said in his rant against the party over “injustice” done to him and his supporters.

    Rane then said he had joined the Congress because he was assured that he will be made chief minister in six months. After quitting the Congress, Rane launched the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha in October 2017.

    In 2018, he declared support for BJP and was elected to the Rajya Sabha on that party’s nomination. In October 2019, he merged his party with the BJP.

    Over the years, Rane’s political rivals have been linking him to several incidents of violence, claiming his involvement in the murder of Shiv Sena worker Shridhar Naik and some other crimes in his Sindhudurg region of Konkan.

  • Cabinet rejig: Ministerial probables meet PM Modi at his residence in New Delhi

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Ahead of the expected Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday evening, a number of leaders, many of whom are likely to be inducted as ministers, arrived at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence to meet him.

    Those meeting Modi included BJP’s Narayan Rane, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Shobha Karandlaje, Pritam Munde and Meenakshi Lekhi, LJP’s Pashupati Paras and Apna Dal’s Anupriya Patel, sources said.

    BJP president J P Nadda is also expected to be there.

    Some state ministers, including Parshottam Rupala and Anurag Thakur, may be elevated, the sources said.

    This will be the first reshuffle in his Council of Ministers by Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.

    The prime minister is expected to bring in young faces and give representation to various social groups and regions in the reshuffle.

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