DC Edit | New Cabinet: It's more continuity than change

The composition of the third edition of the Narendra Modi ministry at the Centre with the re-induction of most of the heavyweight members of the previous team with their portfolios indicates that the government trusts more in continuity than in change; the only addition being the representation given to the alliance partners, a compulsion of coalition politics. The NDA has managed a majority in the Lok Sabha despite losing heavily in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh and extensively using the worst side of aggressive Hindutva basically because of the Modi guarantees. In the larger sense, it means a journey…