The entire reshuffle exercise was rather strange at the Congress queen didn’t even deem it necessary to talk to the PM about it. If sources are to be believed, the reshuffle was the result of deep talks between Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi. Beni Prasad Verma was made a minister only because he was ready to revolt and Mulayam was sending him one feeler after another. But looks like the SP hasn’t given up on Beni Prasad yet, because he is still unhappy after getting the ministerial post, saying since he was a Cabinet minister, why has he been made a state minister now?