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Ahead of cabinet reshuffle Bandaru Dattatreya, 4 other ministers resign

  •   Fri, Sep 01 2017 08:48:26 PM

New Delhi, Sep 1 (Deccan Chronicle): Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya has resigned from the post of Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge) ahead of the cabinet reshuffle on Sunday.

The other ministers who have resigned so far include Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti, Minister of State for Skill Development Rajiv Pratap Rudy, HRD Minister of State Mahendra Lal Pandey and MoS for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sanjiv Baliyan.

Speculation was rife that several others, including Nirmala Sitharaman, Chowdhury Birendra Singh, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Kalraj Mishra, would also go. Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh are also to be shifted.

The move comes ahead of the cabinet reshuffle and expansion on Sunday ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Xiamen, China, for the BRICS summit.

It will be the third such exercise since Modi took over as Prime Minister in May 2014.

"A process has been set in motion for the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan around 10 am on Sunday," a government official told PTI.

The newly inducted ministers will be sworn in on the same day, ANI reported.

A reshuffle in the cabinet has been due for months now. Two key ministries opened up after M Venkaiah Naidu was named Vice President. The environment ministry was reassigned to Harsh Vardhan as an additional charge after the death of minister Anil Dave.
  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Sat, Sep 02 2017

    Reshuffling is good provided the powers are given to the ministers and their performance is apprised time to time

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Sat, Sep 02 2017

    Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya should have been sacked from the Cabinet after he was named in an FIR over the suicide of a Dalit PhD student Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University.
    Last August, Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya had written to the HRD ministry accusing the university of being “a mute spectator” after a group of Dalit students, including Rohith Vemula, clashed with an ABVP leader. Vemula's friends say the trouble began in the first week of August 2015, when five of them protested against the hanging of Mumbai-blasts accused Yakub Memon and condemned the ABVP attack on the screening of the documentary ‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai’ in Delhi University.
    In August, Dattatreya wrote to HRD Minister urging action and claiming that the “Hyderabad University… has in the recent past, become a den of casteist, extremist and anti-national politics”.
    The five students, Vemula included, were suspended in September.

    Prime Minister Narendra MOdi's Cabinet, one name that is likely to come under intense scrutiny is that of Sanjeev Baliyan, who was sworn in a Minister of State with independent charge on Monday. Baliyan is an accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots case.

    "Baliyan was part of a mahapanchayat in September 2013 which was held despite prohibitory orders and allegedly inflamed tensions. UP police charged him with violation of prohibitory orders and promoting enmity between two communities."

    Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti faced a court in Lucknow in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case and were charged with criminal conspiracy.

    Is PM Modi's 'sabka sath, sabka vikas' government is dearth of able leaders without criminal charges?
    Why RSS political wing BJP is so much rely on criminals conspirators to provide 'good governance'?

    Jai Hind

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Fri, Sep 01 2017

    Drama to fool people of India

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Sat, Sep 02 2017

    Cabinet shuffles are part of democratic process, yesterday there was one held in K'Nataka too...So do not decry & mock at this

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  • Jeevan, Mangalore

    Fri, Sep 01 2017

    Uma bharti shouldn't have resigned. She is the face of Non veg ban. We need more of saffron ministers. To ban non veg completely.

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  • J. N. Lobo, Mumbai

    Fri, Sep 01 2017

    Uma Barti should not have waited till she is sacked after the Supreme Court strictures in the criminal case of Babri Masjid demolition. "aur ek dhakka jore se De do. .............

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Fri, Sep 01 2017

    It doesn't matter whether they will resign or sacked. The remaining are also not any better including the cabinet members and the PM.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Sep 01 2017

    New Nautankis ...

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