Cabinet expansion exercise intensified, PM postpones all meetings till July 8

The exercise of cabinet expansion has intensified. Prime Minister Narendra Modi can expand his council of ministers within 2 days. Its exercise is going on at the top level of BJP. About one and a half dozen new ministers are likely to be inducted in the expansion. The special thing is that the Prime Minister’s Office has postponed all the already scheduled meetings till July 8. Along with this, potential ministers who will get a place in the cabinet have been invited to Delhi. A meeting of Union Ministers and veteran leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party was to be held at PM Narendra Modi’s residence.

Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Prahlad Joshi and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar were to attend the meeting to be held at PM Modi’s residence today. Even before this, PM has met BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and many senior leaders including Shah.

There has been no expansion in the Union Cabinet since coming to power in 2019. After the split of Akali Dal from the NDS, there are only BJP ministers in the Modi government. Political pundits have also indicated that JDU, a key ally in Bihar, may get a representative in the ministry. Jyotiraditya Scindia, who left Congress and joined BJP in March 2019, can also be included in the cabinet.
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