Bhopal: After allocating cabinet portfolios to 28 ministers, the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh is now planning to pacify rebels and disgruntled partymen by offering them plum posts in boards and corporations.
The prime objective of these political appointments is to placate senior and first-time MLAs who were excluded from the newly-formed cabinet.
To keep dissent at bay, the Congress had announced that no first-time MLA would be accommodated in the cabinet, a decision that led to widespread resentment among the newly-elected lawmakers. A large number of these leaders included those who would be pitted against BJP leaders in the Lok Sabha polls this year.
The party is likely to offer plum posts to the supporters of CM Kamal Nath and senior leaders Digvijaya Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia. Apart from this, names forwarded by other satraps, including Suresh Pachauri, Arun Yadav and Ajay Singh, are also being considered.
These appointments would help the party bring back to the mainstream those leaders who lost in the assembly polls.
Independent MLAs Surendra Singh Thakur and Rana Vikram Singh and Samajwadi Party’s Rajesh Shukla will be included in this list.
Party rebels, who had openly opposed their exclusion from the cabinet, such as Aindal Singh Kansana, KP Singh, Vikram Singh Natiraja, Dr Heerala Alawa, Laxman Singh, Bisahulal Singh and Sanjay Sharma are also expected to get hefty posts in boards and corporations, party sources said.
Several seniors who lost the assembly polls but still hold gravitas in the party’s scheme of things ahead of Lok Sabha elections – such as Munnalal Goyal, Aronodaya Chaubey, Rajendra Singh, Ramniwas Rawat, Sartaj Singh and Sundarlal Tiwari --- are also likely to be offered big posts, in a boost before the general election battle.
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