TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ In what suggests change in power equation in the Modi 2.0 government, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari would not be part of the reconstituted ministerial panel on Air India which will decide the national carrier”s privatization.
Home Minister Amit Shah will head the panel with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri as its members.
In the previous Modi government, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley headed the Ministerial panel, called Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism (AISAM). “The group of ministers has been reconstituted. Nitin Gadkari is not part of it,” said a government official.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh”s name was earlier found missing from two key ministerial panels. This triggered speculation of a realignment of power equations within the BJP. His name was, however, included the very next day puttting to rest the speculation, albeit for the time being.
