SHILLONG: With the MUA-II completing two years in office, questions have surfaced on whether the Chief Minister Mukul Sangma will undertake a reshuffle of his ministry as he had hinted about it last year.
The Chief Minister had indicated that he would restructure his Cabinet after the completion of two years in office.
It was on March 5, 2013 that Sangma was sworn in as the Chief Minister and subsequently on March 12, other 11 Congress legislators took oath as cabinet ministers.
There are reports the Chief Minister would drop those ministers from his Cabinet, who have gone out of his good books. In contrast, the style of functioning of the Chief Minister is not free from criticism as some aggrieved legislators had conveyed their resentments in this regard to the Congress High Command.
According to party sources, what prevents the Congress High Command to give nod for a cabinet reshuffle is that the top leaders of the party in Delhi themselves are shattered due to the back to back defeats in the Assembly polls after the huge setback in the Lok Sabha polls.
In this context, the party sources said that the High Command has refused to give go ahead to the Chief Minister to effect a cabinet reshuffle.
At the same time, AICC does not want to go for a change of leadership though there were murmurs of discontent from the Congress legislators over the style and functioning of the Chief Minister in the past.
