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Ibobi Ministry likely to reshuffle; High command approves

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In view of the silent protest among congress legislators and the simmering tensions over depriving ministerial rights to some of the congress MLAs who deserves the post, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh in consultation with State Congress President is likely to reshuffle his ministry in the coming 2/3 weeks from now. Source close to Imphal Times revealed that Chief Minister Okram Ibobi and Congress President Gaikhangam had consulted with the high command of AICC and both now had approval for reshuffle of the Ministry. The source however, did not disclose on which congress minister will be replaced by whom.
Congress party is now having absolute majority in the 60 members of 10 Manipur Legislative Assembly after the five MSCP MLAs had merged to the party in April last year and another congress MLA won the by-election at Hiyanglam Assembly constituency after the sitting Trinamool Congress MLA expired in August 2014. Now the total strength of Congress in the house is 48 excluding the Speaker who is supposed to belong to no political parties even though he was elected as congress candidate.
Some of the senior MLAs who earlier had enjoyed the ministerial berth has been excluded from the ministry and new faces has been inducted by the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh in his third term. Since then simmering tension created chaos in the Ibobi ministry, but the veteran politician who succeeded to hold the Chief Minister seat for three consecutive terms managed to put every potential descendants under his whims with additional powers from the 10th Schedule legislation.
But the recent defeat of both the congress candidates in the by-election of Thongju and Thangmeiband Assembly constituencies has been a serious matter of both state and central Congress leader. With the rumours about some incumbent Congress MLAs likely to join the BJP, the Ibobi administration finally left with no choice but to reshuffle the Ministry by replacing some of the Ministers by other congress MLAs.  

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