Young gun causes heartburns

CP Joshi is the youngest minister in the first 19 in the Union Cabinet. So understandably, there is some disquiet among other, more senior members of the Congress from Rajasthan who were ministers in the last cabinet — Namonarayan Meena — who won by a margin of under 500 votes, Sis Ram Ola, who is considered one of the least efficient ministers in the last council of ministers, and Santosh Bagrodia, who is expecting an elevation in the second round.

Speaking to reporters after his swearing in, Joshi was disarmingly honest when he said he stopped hoping he would be made a minister when he saw that the council of ministers would be small. It was only when he got calls from 10 Janpath and the prime minister that he believed this. He is likely to get the panchayati raj ministry, handled by Mani Shankar Aiyar.