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MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, who did not find a place in Modi 3.0 council of ministers, has said that he had categorically refused to be a junior minister for the fourth time. Image:X@fskulaste
MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, who did not find a place in Modi 3.0 council of ministers, has said that he had categorically refused to be a junior minister for the fourth time.
I was a Minister of State (MoS) three times. It is not good to become MoS for the fourth time. So, I flatly refused. I said it would be fine if I became a cabinet minister. I have nothing to harbour, said the BJP tribal leader who has won from the Mandla Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh seven times.
Kulaste was the MoS for Rural Development in the previous government. He was the MoS for Health and Family Welfare during the first of Modi as PM. Kulaste had served as MoS for Tribal and Parliamentary Affairs when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the PM between 1999 and 2004.
He had contested in the assembly polls from Niwas last year but lost.
His name was once linked with the alleged cash-for-vote scandal wherein three BP MPs, including Kulaste, had waved currency notes in the Lok Sabha in July 2008 during a debate on trust vote on the then PM Manmohan Singh’s government.
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First Published: Jun 16 2024 | 10:59 PM IST
