<p>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today indicated that a Cabinet reshuffle could be on the cards to fill up the vacancies.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There are some vacancies. The issue of filling them up is being considered," Singh told reporters on his way back from Japan and Thailand.<br /><br />The Prime Minister was asked whether he was contemplating a Cabinet reshuffle in view of vacancies created by the resignations of P K Bansal and Ashwani Kumar.<br /><br />Bansal quit as Railways Minister earlier this month in the wake of bribery scandal involving his nephew and a Railway Board member. Kumar also resigned as Law Minister following controversy over vetting of a CBI probe report on coal block allocation scam.<br /><br />The portfolio of Railways has been given to Road and Highways Minister C P Joshi as an additional charge while that of Law has gone to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal as additional ministry.<br /><br />Besides, there are a number of other ministers holding more than one portfolios.<br />The Prime Minister, while interacting with the mediapersons on board the special aircraft, also rejected reports of a rift between him and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, asserting that there was no truth in it as the two worked together almost on all issues.<br /><br />"In all truthfulness, there is no difference of opinion between me and the Congress president," he said.<br /><br />"This perception that on certain issues there were differences of opinion, there is no truth in that... We work together on almost every issue and where consultations are needed, I consult the Congress president," he said while responding to a question about perception of a trust deficit and divergences between him and Gandhi.<br /><br />He was also asked whether Gandhi had nudged him against his wishes to get the resignation of Ashwani Kumar and whether he faced a tough situation when CBI Director Ranjit Sinha named a joint secretary in the PMO as having made changes in the agency's affidavit to the Supreme Court on Coalgate. The Prime Minister did not spell out his response to this.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today indicated that a Cabinet reshuffle could be on the cards to fill up the vacancies.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There are some vacancies. The issue of filling them up is being considered," Singh told reporters on his way back from Japan and Thailand.<br /><br />The Prime Minister was asked whether he was contemplating a Cabinet reshuffle in view of vacancies created by the resignations of P K Bansal and Ashwani Kumar.<br /><br />Bansal quit as Railways Minister earlier this month in the wake of bribery scandal involving his nephew and a Railway Board member. Kumar also resigned as Law Minister following controversy over vetting of a CBI probe report on coal block allocation scam.<br /><br />The portfolio of Railways has been given to Road and Highways Minister C P Joshi as an additional charge while that of Law has gone to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal as additional ministry.<br /><br />Besides, there are a number of other ministers holding more than one portfolios.<br />The Prime Minister, while interacting with the mediapersons on board the special aircraft, also rejected reports of a rift between him and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, asserting that there was no truth in it as the two worked together almost on all issues.<br /><br />"In all truthfulness, there is no difference of opinion between me and the Congress president," he said.<br /><br />"This perception that on certain issues there were differences of opinion, there is no truth in that... We work together on almost every issue and where consultations are needed, I consult the Congress president," he said while responding to a question about perception of a trust deficit and divergences between him and Gandhi.<br /><br />He was also asked whether Gandhi had nudged him against his wishes to get the resignation of Ashwani Kumar and whether he faced a tough situation when CBI Director Ranjit Sinha named a joint secretary in the PMO as having made changes in the agency's affidavit to the Supreme Court on Coalgate. The Prime Minister did not spell out his response to this.</p>