None in Cabinet from east India

The entire eastern part of India, accounting for 142 Lok Sabha seats, will be unrepresented in the Union Cabinet, probably for the first time since independence. The over-reliance on youth and political messaging in dwindling states blinded Congress leadership to the fact that its recast of Team Manmohan would leave Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal, Odisha, Assam and seven north-eastern states without a minister of Cabinet rank.

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