TRS MP Kavitha And PDP MP Mehbooba Mufti Made 'Confirmed' For Next Month's 'Modi Cabinet' Expansion

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are making serious efforts to induct one or more of TRS and PDP MPs in the council of ministers in an effort to enlarge their  base  to offset the loss of image in the Delhi debacle and ahead of the crucial budget session beginning February 23.

With Jammu and Kashmir's People's Democratic Party more or less on board now that the prospect of putting in place a BJP-PDP government looks real, the government is looking to shore up its numbers in Parliament and cushion itself numerically and politically against the Opposition that is set to go for the jugular in the budget session.

The BJP is keen to seal the deal in J&K and display its pan India presence in India in spite of its  huge Delhi loss by roping in PDP MP Mehbooba Mufti into Modi cabinet. TRS MP Kavitha Kalvakuntla too is a prospective inductee. Both are daughters of the respective founders of their parties. Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is Mehbooba's father while Kavitha is the daughter of TRS chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

The TRS has 11 MPs and the PDP three in the Lok Sabha and the cabinet expansion to accommodate members of the new allies is likely to be when the budget session breaks in between this March.

The deal with the TRS chief and Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao  was locked  during the meeting with Modi yesterday. "The PM is happy with the TRS and for the way it has cooperated in the House," a BJP source said. A formal decision on inducting the TRS and the PDP will be taken by the BJP's parliamentary board.

The BJP ally in Andhra Pradesh, the Telugu Desam Party, was reportedly "unhappy" with the BJP for "befriending" the TRS. Prime Minister has brushed aside the observations of Venkaiah Naidu on the issue saying "They(TDP) can not have everything, every time," it is  learned.