It is now official. After keeping his party legislators and media guessing for a long time, YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy announced that he would revamp his cabinet soon.
He made this clear to his cabinet colleagues at the cabinet meeting held on Friday to approve the state annual budget for 2022-23 before it was presented in the state assembly in the morning.
According to the sources in the cabinet, Jagan indicated to the ministers that this could be their last cabinet meeting, as he was planning to revamp the cabinet very soon.
He told them that those who would be dropped from the cabinet should strive hard for the party till the next assembly elections. He said they would be made the party in-charges of the newly formed districts in the state.
Jagan, however, hinted that some of the existing ministers would be retained in the cabinet.
He did not say how many of them would continue in the cabinet and who they are. But his comments are learnt to have caused some kind of anxiety among the ministers.
The party sources, however, are predicting that Jagan might retain only four or five including finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, K Kanna Babu, Balineni Srinivas Reddy and Perni Nani.
“But nobody knows what is there in the mind of Jagan. Till the reshuffle is done, one has to keep one’s fingers crossed,” a YSRC leader said.