
3 Rajasthan Cabinet Ministers offer to quit
The Hindu
Reshuffle likely as they write to Sonia
In an indication of an imminent Cabinet reshuffle in Rajasthan, three Ministers holding important portfolios in the Ashok Gehlot government as well as the party posts on Friday offered their resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The ministers’ offer to quit suggested that the much-awaited Cabinet rejig will be based on “one man, one post” formula.
All India Congress Committee general secretary Ajay Maken, who arrived here on Friday evening to take part in a ‘Kisan Vijay Diwas’ rally, told reporters that Ministers Govind Singh Dotasra, Raghu Sharma and Harish Chaudhary had offered to resign in a letter addressed to Ms. Gandhi and expressed their desire to serve in the party organisation.
“I had met the Ministers in Jaipur on July 30, when some of them had expressed their willingness to work for the party. Our three honhaar (promising) Ministers have made the offer of resignation. They obviously want to work in the organisation,” Mr. Maken said at Sanganer airport after his arrival from New Delhi.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











