The free hand BJP’s 303 seats in the Lok Sabha has given Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in evidence on Thursday evening as he replaced 40% of his ministers, dropping veterans like Sushma Swaraj and Suresh Prabhu, and sprung a surprise by picking former foreign secretary S Jaishankar as a Cabinet minister.
Expectations that Modi will send several signals at the start of his second term were not belied. The PM made it clear that the process of raising a new rung of leaders has begun in right earnest and he won’t be constrained by reputations. Within the limitations of working with a finite pool, the exclusions demonstrate that “merit” and “fitness” have been applied as criteria.
The free hand BJP’s 303 seats in the Lok Sabha has given Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in evidence on Thursday evening as he replaced 40% of his ministers, dropping veterans like Sushma Swaraj and Suresh Prabhu, and sprung a surprise by picking former foreign secretary S Jaishankar as a Cabinet minister.
Expectations that Modi will send several signals at the start of his second term were not belied. The PM made it clear that the process of raising a new rung of leaders has begun in right earnest and he won’t be constrained by reputations. Within the limitations of working with a finite pool, the exclusions demonstrate that “merit” and “fitness” have been applied as criteria.