Rumour: Pawan Kalyan Into Modi’s Cabinet?

There have been rumours in social media over Pawan Kalyan getting inducted into PM Narendra Modi’s cabinet which is set to undergo a major reshuffle. As Pawan has been supporting Modi since 2014 and hasn’t gotten any benefit from Modi or BJP, there are rumours and speculations that PK would be given

However, all these are baseless rumours. For someone to get into the Union Cabinet, one has to be elected as MP for Lok Sabha or should be nominated to Rajya Sabha. Since Tirupati by-election is also done along with other vacant positions and there are no by-elections for Lok Sabha in any part of the country in the recent future, Pawan getting elected to Lok Sabha is easily ruled out. Regarding Rajya Sabha, Pawan Kalyan’s Janasena Party has only one MLA in the Assembly. So, the party has no minimum strength to get Rajya Sabha nominations.

Unless Pawan merges Janasena into BJP, he may not be nominated to Rajya Sabha from BJP and only thus he can be inducted into Cabinet. This is highly unlikely and also can be a political blunder. Since Pawan Kalyan often announced that he is not in favour of grabbing any political posts or positions and always maintained that his political entry is to serve people, Pawan will not merge Janasena into BJP for a mere Cabinet post.

Since Chiru had earlier merged PRP with the Congress and bagged the Union Minister of Tourism post, it had invited wrath from many people who criticised Chiru’s act. Ever since Pawan floated his own political outfit Janasena, there has been criticism from his rivals that Pawan too would follow his brother Chiru and merge his party one day. Pawan has quashed all such criticism and allegations.

So, Pawan Kalyan getting placed into Modi’s cabinet in the coming reshuffle is highly impossible and those rumours without facts are just circulated on social media.