Cabinet Reshuffle or Cabinet Expansion: Not Much Difference

      Doctor Manmohan Singh is India’s second Prime Minster since independence after Jawaharlal Lal Nehru who becomes Prime Minister after completing full term in the office, but his first innings as Prime Minster was full of obstacles/oppositions not only from opposition parties but from his allies also, thus it was visible that he was not fully independent to work or appoint or allocate ministry as per his choice and it is understandable in the era of coalition government as it has certain limits, but second time taking charge of country as PM his party Indian National Congress party is largest party and it need few alias to form government, so citizen of the country hoping from Manmohan Singh good, neat and clean governance compare to his first term, but in the short span of time or specifically under less then two years it appears that he still has restrictions/limits not less then his first time.
     His ministers were keep on trapping one after another controversies, scams, corruption charges which made PM under tremendous pressure to take harsh steps, and to clean his cabinet from scams/controversies/corruption charges; in democracy reshuffle is better way to step against non performer, accused or promote. Before cabinet reshuffle happened, speculation was in the air that there will be induction of young faces and Sharad Pawar can be switch to another ministry because of his responsibilities towards cricket being ICC President, plus his controversial statements in the media which ignited inflation in the country and each and every essential commodities of kitchen price sky rocketed or jumps to three to four times from there actual prices. Sports Minster can be dropped from ministry, which ministry handed over to Mr. Sibbal? As he was in charge of two ministries which were HRD and Telecommunications, plus whisper was that Finance Minster and Home Minster can be shuffled with each others, below is list of ministers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which has three ministers elevated to cabinet rank:
Cabinet Ministers :-

• Praful Patel: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
• Sriprakash Jaiswal: Coal
• Salman Khursheed: Water Resources and additional charge of Minority Affairs

Minister of State (Independent Charge) :-

• Ajay Maken: Youth Affairs and Sports
• Beni Prasad Verma: Steel
• K.V. Thomas: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Ministers of State :-

• Ashwani Kumar: Planning and Parliamentary Affairs, Science and Technology, and Earth Sciences
• K.C. Venugopal: Power

The portfolios of the following ministers may also be changed as indicated below:
Cabinet Ministers :-

• Sharad Pawar: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
• Virbhadra Singh: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
• Vilasrao Deshmukh: Rural Development and additional charge of Panchayati Raj
• S. Jaipal Reddy: Petroleum and Natural Gas
• Kamal Nath: Urban Development
• Vayalar Ravi: Overseas Indian Affairs and additional charge of Civil Aviation
• Murli Deora: Corporate Affairs
• Kapil Sibal: Human Resource Development and additional charge of Communications and Information Technology
• B.K. Handique: Development of North-Eastern Region
• C.P. Joshi: Road Transport and Highways
• Kumari Selja: Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and additional charge of Culture
• Subodh Kant Sahay: Tourism
• M.S. Gill: Statistics and Programme Implementation
• Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

Minister of State (Independent Charge) :-

• Dinsha Patel: Mines

Ministers of State :-

• E. Ahamed: External Affairs
• Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
• V. Narayanasamy: Parliamentary Affairs and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister's Office
• Gurudas Kamat: Home Affairs
• A. Sai Prathap: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
• Bharatsinh Solanki: Railways
• Jitin Prasada: Road Transport and Highways
• Mahadev S. Khandela: Tribal Affairs
• R.P.N. Singh: Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs
• Tusharbhai Chaudhary: Road Transport and Highways
• Arun Yadav: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
• Pratik Prakashbapu Patil: Coal

So it was mere a cosmetic change nothing big inclusion in the cabinet or chopped any minister but while talking to media after cabinet reshuffle PM said this is just minor reshuffle but big cabinet expansion will held after the budget session.