Cabinet reshuffle soon, but top ministers unlikely to change

June 17, 2016 12:45

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will "most likely" shuffle his ministry before the month ends but the topmost ministers are unlikely to be touched, BJP and government sources have said.

A high-level BJP source quashed the suggestions that defence minister Manohar Parrikar would return to Goa as chief minister ahead of state elections next year.

Reports from Panaji had fuelled such speculation claiming the BJP did not expect Laxmikant Parsekar, who became Goa chief minister after Parrikar was inducted into Modi's cabinet, to be able to deliver a win.

Before the 2012 Assembly elections, Parrikar had succeeded in "softening" the BJP's hard-line image and even win over a section of Goa's Christians. The BJP doubts Parsekar's ability to project similar "inclusiveness". Read more

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