No question of post for deputy CM in C'garh: Raman

Raipur, Dec 13 (UNI) Chief Minister Raman Singh has scotched up speculations that the state will get a tribal Deputy Chief Minister in view of the drubbing received in the by-elections to tribal-dominated Kota Assembly.

''There is no plan to create a post for deputy Chief Minister let alone the question of giving the post to a person from a particular community,'' Dr Singh told UNI.

Claiming that tribals had adequate representation in the Cabinet, he said neither his government nor his party could think of neglecting the section, whose support brought his government into power.

On transferring some ministers, belonging to other sections, to the organisation and including some tribal members in the Cabinet in their place, Dr Singh said ministry reshuffle was on the cards but no decision on including new faces had been taken.

''The party has to decide as to who should be sent to the government and to the organisation. There is no such proposal so far,'' he said, adding that he would discuss it with the national leaders after the national executive meeting of BJP in Lucknow later in the month.

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