Shiv Sena leader and minister of state for banking and finance Anant Geete is tipped to be elevated and inducted as the new Union power minister in place of Suresh Prabhu in a likely Cabinet expansion-cum-reshuffle tomorrow.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee may also be inducting another Shiv Sena leader, A R Adsul, as minister of state.
The last-ditch attempt by Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani to persuade Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray to give up his insistence on Prabhu