Cabinet reshuffle , Chidambaram to get finance

NEW DELHI: Home Minister P Chidambaram is likely to get the finance portfolio vacated by Pranab Mukherjee.
Sushil Kumar Shinde, who is the Power Minister, is expected to get home, sources said. Veerappa Moily, Corporate Affairs Minister, will get additional charge of  Power Ministry.


A notification regarding this has been sent to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.


The government also needs to decide and announce, before Parliament meets next week, who will replace Pranab as Leader of the Lok Sabha. There has been a demand from some Congressmen that Rahul Gandhi be elevated to that.  


Parliament sits next week for the monsoon session and the government had indicated that before the session began, it would fill the important finance ministry. The Prime Minister has held interim charge for a little over a month now.

Chidambaram has been Finance Minister before; if he gets the ministry again, however, uproar can be expected from the opposition benches. The BJP-led opposition has targeted him for his role in the 2G scam.