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Ministerial reshuffle in offing; PM Narendra Modi cracks whip

Prime Minister takes ministers to task for missing Parliament sessions

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Archis MohanSanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi
Several of the 72 ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers are a rattled lot. 

Modi recently gave them a tongue-lashing, as he did to Members of Parliament. He warned them if they continue missing Parliament sessions, they might find it difficult to get a party ticket for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

As the chief minister of Gujarat, Modi was known to replace nearly a third of his sitting legislators in the run-up to Assembly elections, to beat anti-incumbency. 

More than the MPs, the ministers have taken the warning as gospel, which comes amid anticipation that the