"In view of the post-Covid repercussions, as a precautionary measure on the advice of doctors, the Chief Minister is not able to meet people in person," Gehlot's OSD said.
According to a senior minister in the state, there are vacant posts in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet that are going to be filled without much rejigging.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda met on Friday amid speculation about a reshuffle in the Union cabinet, an exercise Modi has not undertaken since forming the government for a second time in May 2019.
Amid speculation of a cabinet reshuffle in Manipur, Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Thursday dropped three ministers from the council of ministers. Governor Najma Heptulla has accepted the recommendation, according to her letter to the chief minister.
In a first major reshuffle in his government in two-and-a-half years, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has allocated portfolios to three new Ministers, besides changing those of other ministerial colleagues.
With cabinet reshuffle on the cards, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked his ministers to give a detailed presentation on their ministries on December 21 at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. Sources have revealed that the under-performing ministers might be dropped from the cabinet which indicates the much awaited first cabinet reshuffle of NDA-II.
The Prime Minister was likely to fulfil promises pertaining to Ministries that PTI had made to its allies in the federal government, such as Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P)
Yogi Adityanath reshuffles UP cabinet
The most significant aspect of Wednesday's reshuffle is that majority of the newly inducted ministers are first-timers with almost no administrative experience. Yogi Adityanath will face an uphill task in making these ministers perform.
The reshuffle, and the possible induction of new members, is likely to fill the slots that have fallen vacant in the last few months, particularly after some ministers got elected to the Lok Sabha.
Michael Lobo, who resigned as the deputy speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly, and three of the 10 MLAs who had earlier this week joined the BJP -- Chandrakant Kavlekar, Jeniffer Monserratte, Philip Neri Rodrigues -- were sworn in as new ministers.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has already worked out the modalities of the cabinet reshuffle after consulting Amit Shah during his last visit to Delhi. The BJP is also focusing on increasing the participation of Dalits and OBCs.
The 13 comprise 10 from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), two from Shiv Sena and one from ally the Republican Party of India (A) (RPI-A).
The saffron party had on April 17 asked all its nine ministers in the PDP-BJP government in the state to submit their resignations to enable bringing in new faces in the two-year-old Mufti cabinet.
Ahead of the reshuffle, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh resigned on Sunday. The post will be filled by Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker and BJP leader Kavinder Gupta.
This comes as the much-awaited reshuffle in the Mehbooba Mufti led Jammu and Kashmir government is yet to take place with the BJP expected to bring in some new faces.
The reshuffle comes within a fortnight of the ruling partner BJP asking all its ministers in the state government to resign soon after two party ministers resigned over the Kathua rape and murder case.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule was offered a Cabinet berth by Prime Minister Narendra Modi but she turned down the offer
Nitish Kumar blamed the media over reports suggesting Janata Dal United’s inclusion in the reshuffle of the Union Cabinet
An effective BJP spokesperson in the run-up to the 2014 polls, Sitharaman will be the second woman in the crucial Cabinet Committee on Security after External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj
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