Tharoor may get Cabinet berth

Another Cabinet expansion may be in the offing to accommodate Shashi Tharoor, who recently bowed out of the contest for the post of United Nations Secretary General.

Tharoor, who is on record as having said he would look for a job in India, may be considered for a ministership in the Manmohan Singh government, top sources in the government said.

There is also the issue of Ambareesh, who resigned from the council of ministers as Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, because he felt Karnataka had been discriminated against in the Cauvery river award.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has rejected the resignation from the House, as it was incorrectly worded, but there is no word about his resignation from the government.

As Tharoor is not a member of the either House, he will have to be elected within six months. Some sections of the government say Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma, who was the visible organiser of the Satyagraha Conference organised by the government of India recently, may be moved elsewhere.