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Tuesday, Sep 09, 2003
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Politics Government - Politics Mamata is back as Minister sans portfolio Our Bureau
New Delhi , Sept. 8 BIDING her time while waiting in the wings for about 30 months, the Trinamool Congress supremo, Ms Mamata Banerjee, on Monday finally staged a comeback, though without a portfolio. Sworn in as a Cabinet Minister by the President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, at a brief ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, marking the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 14th expansion-cum-reshuffle of his Council of Ministers, Ms Banerjee chose to remain as a Minister of Cabinet rank without portfolio, having declined to accept the Ministry of Coal. According to sources in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the impasse over Mamata's choice of portfolio is likely to be resolved soon. Marking his re-entry alongside, after a gap of about three-and-a-half months, was the MDMK nominee, Mr Gingee N. Ramachandran, who was sworn in as a Minister of State to function as the deputy to Mr Syed Shahnawaz Hussain in the Ministry of Textiles. While inducting the two Ministers, Mr Vajpayee also utilised the opportunity to reshuffle the portfolios of five Ministers of State (MoS) and promote Mr Bandaru Dattatraya to the rank of Minister of State (Independent charge). Mr Dattatraya has been given the charge of the Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.The Prime Minister changed the portfolios of Mr Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Mr Basangouda R. Patil, Mr Pon Radhakrishnan and Mr Shripad Yesso Naik. Mr Gangwar, who was earlier the Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs, has been shifted to the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Public Enterprises along with Parliamentary Affairs. Mr Patil has been moved from Textiles to the Railways to vacate the slot for Mr Ramachandran. Mr Radhakrishnan, in turn, has been moved from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation. Mr Naik, who finds his portfolio reshuffled yet again, now moves to North Block as the Minister of State.
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