As reported first by Indianmandarins on July 29, the Union Cabinet is scheduled for reshuffle on Tuesday at 11 AM. DG PIB Frank Noronha tweeted a message this morning to this effect. The reshuffle seems to have been necessitated by the fact that Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Goa are slated to go for elections in the months ahead. Further, there is a vacancy in the Cabinet created by the departure of Sarbananda Sonowal to Assam as CM. To ensure that there is harmonious coordination between the party and the government, new faces from the party could be drafted into the Cabinet, while some from the Cabinet would be sent back to the party to work for the forthcoming elections. Last week, the Prime Minister and BJP President Amit Shah had a closed-door meeting that lasted over three hours where it was understood that the two leaders discussed the reshuffle as well as a rejig in the party organisation. Interestingly, in Nagpur, the headquarters of the RSS, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, as well as Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, separately met with organisation chief Mohan Bhagwat. While it was not known what the meetings were about, sources indicate that the two leaders discussed the cabinet reshuffle both at the Centre and at the state-level. The last cabinet reshuffle took place in November 2014.