Modi to rule India with 25-member Cabinet
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent-May 26, 2014
Newly sworn Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy Narendra Modi is expected to appoint 25-member Cabinet and 20 State Ministers.
Sri Lankan jumbo Cabinet expanded
R. K. RADHAKRISHNAN-COLOMBO, January 28, 2013
The Sri Lankan Cabinet, one of the biggest in a democratic nation - with 93 Ministers - has been expanded to reward a few more who have exceeded the expectations of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The Cabinet of Ministers is now 67 strong, including the executive president, Prime Minister D.M.Jayaratne, and 10 senior Ministers. Another 28 are Deputy Ministers, and, two have been named under a new category, ‘Project Ministers.’ This takes the total number of Ministers in the 225-member Parliament to 97. There are also a slew of young Members of Parliament, named ‘Monitoring MPs,’ who have an open ended job of monitoring specified Ministries.
In the 2010 elections, the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance had received enough votes to win 144 seats. With members from the opposition United National Party crossing over, and with unquestioning support from the Ceylon Workers Congress and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, the UPFA, soon garnered a two-thirds majority in parliament.
