PMO Holds Marathon Review Meetings Ahead of Likely Cabinet Reshuffle

The Prime Minister's Office has been holding a series of extended, high-intensity review meetings over the past several days, ahead of a cabinet reshuffle that officials say is now widely expected, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

Pre-reshuffle reviews of this kind are typically used by the PMO to assess which ministers are retained, moved to new portfolios, or dropped altogether. The exercise gives the leadership a structured basis for reallocating charges across ministries before a politically sensitive period, rather than making changes on an ad hoc basis.

The sessions, described by sources as marathon huddles, have reportedly gone beyond routine stock-taking to include detailed feedback on individual ministerial output, the pace of policy execution, and political messaging. Sources said internal criticism has also been actively solicited as part of the exercise, rather than the review being confined to self-assessment by ministries.

The meetings are understood to involve senior bureaucrats, key political aides and select ministers, with particular attention to delivery in infrastructure, employment and welfare schemes — sectors that typically carry the most political weight ahead of election cycles in the states.

Sources said there is also an emphasis on tightening coordination between ministries, an area that has periodically drawn criticism when overlapping schemes from different departments have failed to move in step with each other.

Should a reshuffle follow, its scale will indicate how far the leadership intends to go in altering the current ministerial line-up versus making targeted, limited changes. No timeline for the reshuffle has been officially confirmed.

No official announcement on the composition or timing of the reshuffle has been made so far, and the PMO has not commented publicly on the meetings.