Cabinet expansion a vote-garnering exercise: Congress

Congress on July 5 dubbed as a “vote-garnering exercise” the Union Cabinet expansion with an eye on poll-bound states and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's “tall claim” of 'minimum government, maximum governance' has been reduced to another “gimmick”.
After the dropping of five ministers, the July 5 expansion effected by Modi took the total strength of his Council of Ministers to 78, just keeping it under the constitution limit of 15 per cent of the total strength of the legislature.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told reporters that with a “top heavy” Cabinet Modi's “tall claim” of 'minimum government, maximum governance' has been reduced to another gimmick.