Cabinet expansion only after July Parliament session

May 29, 2014 12:04

Only those who perform well as parliamentarians will be eligible for induction into the Narendra Modi-led council of ministers, likely to be expanded after the new government's first full Parliament session in July. The National Democratic Alliance government will present its first Budget during that session.

The message from the BJP leadership to its members of Parliament is that Modi will keep an eagle eye on the performance of all party MPs during the July session.

To expand his council of ministers, he will pick only those he deems to have made a mark. Party sources said expansion of the council of ministers would have to wait until the July session because most MPs were unknown entities. "We will like to see their interests and skill sets and how they perform in Parliament," a party leader said.

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