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What is the big idea of Modi 2.0 reshuffle ? To ramp up the image of the Govt or shelter defectors ? July 8, 2021, 9:51 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
A lot of thought and deliberations had reportedly gone into making the Modi 2.0 Cabinet reshuffle; endless meetings happened between Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah , BJP President JP Nadda and all those who mattered in the RSS . Yet what we saw as a major overhaul of Modi Government’s on July 7 evening at Rashtrapati Bhavan did little to convince if the axing of senior ministers like Ravishankar Prasad and Prakash Javedkar among 12 ministers by itself was enough to signal that decision- making and delivery mechanism of the regime would improve overnight.