Minor reshuffle of Cabinet by Jayalalithaa

In a minor reshuffle of the cabinet and party ranks, Chief

Minister and AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today dropped C Ve Shanmugam from the

Ministry and stripped him off a key party post.Shanmugam, who was part of earlier cabinet reshuffles

also,was dropped as Commerical Taxes and Registration Minister by Governor K

Rosaiah on the advice of Jayalalithaa, a Raj Bhavan communique said.Government Chief Whip and Sankarapuram MLA, P Mohan was

inducted into the cabinet as Minister for Rural Industries, including Cottage

and Small Industries, hitherto held by M C Sampath.Environment Minister B V Ramanaa has been designated as

Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration. Sampath is the Environment

Minister.School Education Minister N R Sivapathy will additionally

hold the portfolio of Law, Courts and Prisons, Personnel and Administrative

Reforms and Prevention of Corruption.Social Welfare Minister B Valarmathi has been handed

additional charge of Nutritious Noon Meal Programme, it said.Meanwhile, Jayalalithaa removed Shanmugam as District

Secretary of the party's Villupuram (North) unit, replacing him with Dr R

Lakshmanan.Two more secretaries, G Senthamizhan, South Chennai (South),

and P Vetrivel North Chennai), both MLAs, were also removed from their

respective posts, Jayalalithaa said in a party statement.