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Cabinet reshuffle suggests focus on delivering goods for 2019 LS polls

Smriti Irani, Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad continue to hold more than one portfolio

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President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose with some of the new members of the Union Cabinet after the reshuffle at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Archis Mohan New Delhi
Beyond the big news of Nirmala Sitharaman being made the Minister of Defence, the subtext of the Narendra Modi government’s reshuffle can be seen with two former bureaucrats being made ministers with independent charge of key infrastructure portfolios. The focus is on delivering the goods for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, and an admission of talent deficit within Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ranks.

Former bureaucrats to man key sectors

RK Singh: The former union home secretary, Raj Kumar Singh is now the minister with independent charge of power, new and renewable energy. He takes over from Piyush Goyal. Clearly, he has

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