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Youthful Cabinet on the cards?
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 28
Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi’s probable entry into the government is expected to see the promotion of several junior ministers when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh undertakes a reshuffle of his Cabinet.

UPA sources disclosed that if Rahul is inducted into the Cabinet, junior ministers like Ajay Maken, Jyotiraditya Scindia, D Purandeswari, MM Pallam Raju, Sachin Pilot and Jyotiraditya Scindia could be also be elevated in order to give a youthful look to the new team and to project them as the Congress party’s future leaders. The process of grooming GenNext leaders in the Congress has already been kick-started with the induction of three junior ministers, Jitin Prasad, Jitendra Singh and RPN Singh, into the screening committees for the poll-bound states.