The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has assailed the Congress party-led UPA government for the latest reshuffle in the cabinet, saying that it should have first established its majority in Parliament and then gone for such a major decision.

"The President had a Constitutional responsibility to ask the government to prove its majority, just as the government should have done this suo motu," senior Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee said hours after the induction of three Congress MPs from West Bengal as Ministers of State (MoS). 

"The reshuffle decision by the central government s absolutely unconstitutional and unethical. Because this is a minority government after the withdrawal of Trinamool Congress support; this is absolutely minority government, their first duty was to go to the parliament and go and vote and establish their majority till then they should avoid all this types of big reshuffles," he said