A Cabinet reshuffle could take place either before June 15 or else be deferred to July, but ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, highly placed sources here indicated on Monday night.

Internal problems in the BJP are music to the ears of the Congress which sees no threat to the UPA coalition in the next three years despite scams and scandals.

The controversy stirred by Ms Sushma Swaraj’s revelations about the induction of the controversial Bellary brothers into the B.S. Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka has put the top BJP leadership in the dock. This has enthused the Congress party, which on Saturday stepped up its attack on the saffron party over Ms Swaraj washing her

The Congress is not attaching much importance to the recent statements by senior party leaders R.K. Dhawan, Vasant Sathe and C.K. Jaffer Sharief on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, viewing this as nothing but a “calling attention” or “private member business”.

Union minister Sachin Pilot’s arrest over Bhatta-Parsaul farmers’ issue on Sunday has virtually given the “action plan” for about half-a-dozen Congress ministers from Uttar Pradesh at the Centre.

After the DMK, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP is feeling uncomfortable in the UPA following the dissolution of the board of directors of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.

Four women leaders — Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, J. Jayalalithaa and Sheila Dikshit — are leading the key states from north, east and south which elect a total of 168 Lok Sabha seats.

The Congress launched its campaign for Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll even before the results of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry Assembly elections are announced. The Sonia Gandhi-led party is building up the campaign against the Mayawati government on the issues of law and order situation, violence against farmers and corruption in the state.

Political equations in Maharashtra appear to be changing with RPI leader Ramdas Athawale moving closer to the Shiv Sena-BJP combine, while the NCP is feeling uncomfortable following dissolution of the board of directors of the Maharashtra state co-operative bank.

The current mood in the AICC is to renominate Pradesh Congress chiefs, a strategy reflected in major states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal and Delhi.