Eye on polls, Naveen more likely to rejig ministry

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: With the excitement of early election doing the rounds, hypothesis is rife that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is about to go for a ministry reshuffle quickly. The rejig although is said to be a minor one, particularly specializing in western Odisha the place the BJP is in a greater place.

The reshuffle will goal to strike a steadiness and nullify the warring factions primarily within the Sambalpur, Bargarh and Deogarh districts. Besides, BJD leaders from western Odisha who scripted a spectacular victory for the social gathering in Padampur bypoll might be assigned an necessary position forward of the polls.

Sources stated that former minister Sushant Singh, who performed a vital position within the Padampur victory, is more likely to make a comeback into the ministry and a few ministers from the area are more likely to be axed.
Acute factionalism persists within the social gathering ranks in western Odisha and necessary leaders don’t see eye to eye. Singh, who represents the Bhatli Assembly constituency in Bargarh district, is the one senior chief from the realm who’s not a part of the cabinet.

The chief minister can’t maintain Singh sad for an extended interval in view of the approaching election. The former minister who was in command of the Padampur bypoll has proven his organisational may. It is unlikely that in an election yr he might be stored exterior the cabinet, they stated.

As the main focus of the BJD might be western Odisha which has as many as 36 Assembly seats, Singh together with Health and Family Welfare minister Naba Kishore Das are more likely to play a serious position in the course of the election. The reshuffle might be carried out to keep up a steadiness between the 2 leaders.

The social gathering management has set a goal to win 30 out of 36 Assembly seats from the area and has to maintain all factions completely happy at this juncture, sources stated. A senior chief of the social gathering stated that the reshuffle could happen any day after the organisational reshuffle of the social gathering, the method for which has already began. The chief minister has already introduced new social gathering spokespersons and appointed a number of leaders as advisors to completely different departments and heads of state public sector undertakings.

The chief minister had overhauled his total ministry in June final yr, inducting 21 ministers together with seven first-timers and three girls. Singh, who held the Rural Development and Labour portfolios, was one of many casualties of the reshuffle.

BHUBANESWAR: With the excitement of early election doing the rounds, hypothesis is rife that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is about to go for a ministry reshuffle quickly. The rejig although is said to be a minor one, particularly specializing in western Odisha the place the BJP is in a greater place.

The reshuffle will goal to strike a steadiness and nullify the warring factions primarily within the Sambalpur, Bargarh and Deogarh districts. Besides, BJD leaders from western Odisha who scripted a spectacular victory for the social gathering in Padampur bypoll might be assigned an necessary position forward of the polls.

Sources stated that former minister Sushant Singh, who performed a vital position within the Padampur victory, is more likely to make a comeback into the ministry and a few ministers from the area are more likely to be axed.
Acute factionalism persists within the social gathering ranks in western Odisha and necessary leaders don’t see eye to eye. Singh, who represents the Bhatli Assembly constituency in Bargarh district, is the one senior chief from the realm who’s not a part of the cabinet.

The chief minister can’t maintain Singh sad for an extended interval in view of the approaching election. The former minister who was in command of the Padampur bypoll has proven his organisational may. It is unlikely that in an election yr he might be stored exterior the cabinet, they stated.

As the main focus of the BJD might be western Odisha which has as many as 36 Assembly seats, Singh together with Health and Family Welfare minister Naba Kishore Das are more likely to play a serious position in the course of the election. The reshuffle might be carried out to keep up a steadiness between the 2 leaders.

The social gathering management has set a goal to win 30 out of 36 Assembly seats from the area and has to maintain all factions completely happy at this juncture, sources stated. A senior chief of the social gathering stated that the reshuffle could happen any day after the organisational reshuffle of the social gathering, the method for which has already began. The chief minister has already introduced new social gathering spokespersons and appointed a number of leaders as advisors to completely different departments and heads of state public sector undertakings.

The chief minister had overhauled his total ministry in June final yr, inducting 21 ministers together with seven first-timers and three girls. Singh, who held the Rural Development and Labour portfolios, was one of many casualties of the reshuffle.