In the aftermath of the Cabinet reshuffle, the BJP has this to say. Calling the reshuffle a "damp squib" the Opposition insisted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed to reassure the nation and dispel the "gloom shadowing the UPA government". 

"It's a futile exercise which inspires none and in no way dispels the gloom shadowing the embattled UPA government," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said after the PM dropped five ministers and inducted 13 new faces into his Council of Ministers.

"This is a wasted exercise which unreservedly attests that we have a dysfunctional government that is destined to sink. Apparently, the Prime Minister has failed to reassure the nation once again," Rudy said.