New Delhi, June 17 (ANI): Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday said the Congress-led UPA Government will get a third term.
“I have always believed that we will have a third go as U P A and the people will again repose their faith in us,” Dr. Singh said on Twitter.
The Prime Minister’s comment came shortly after he inducted eight new faces in the Council of Ministers.
In perhaps the last reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers, Mallikarjun Kharge was made the Railways Minister, as eight more were inducted with veterans Sis Ram Ola and Oscar Fernandes making a comeback.
After Sunday’s reshuffle in the party, senior woman leader from election-bound Rajasthan Girija Vyas and K S Rao from Andhra Pradesh were brought in as Cabinet Ministers in Monday’s exercise.
Three new faces — Santosh Chowdhary, J D Seelam and E N S Natchiappan were made Ministers of State along with veteran Maharashtra leader Manikrao Gavit.
With the fresh inductions, the strength of the Union Council of Ministers has gone up to 77.
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday praised Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, saying the latter is a national leader.
“Rahul Gandhi is a national leader. He has all the right qualities that a leader should have,” Dr. Singh said on Twitter.
“I have always said, as far as I am concerned, I would be very happy to see Rahul step into my shoes,” he added.
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday avoided commenting on the infighting within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) following Janata Dal (United)’s decision to end the 17-year-old alliance. “It is their internal affair,” Dr. Singh said on twitter.
Dr. Singh, while commenting on future alliances, said ‘there are no permanent friends or enemies’.
“We take decisions as situation evolves,” he added.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar earlier in the day rejected the BJP’s charge of betrayal, and accused the saffron outfit of betraying and ignoring its own senior leaders.
“They (the BJP) have betrayed their own leaders… how can they accuse us of betrayal? If anyone is talking about betrayal, then betrayal has been from the other side. Someone who betrays his own seniors, can’t talk about being betrayed,” he told the media in Patna. Kumar further said the JD-U had chosen to opt out of the alliance because it could not see eye to eye with the new BJP leadership, especially in the wake of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s elevation as the leader of the BJP’s 2014 general election campaign.
“The era of Atal-Advani is over…. we cannot accept the new order of the BJP,” Kumar reiterated today,.
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