Saturday, April 16 2005 10:12 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda is likely to expand his one-month old Ministry for the second time shortly, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) sources said last night (Apr 15, 2005).

Munda, who on March 15 had been sworn-in along with five others, expanded the Ministry for the first time on March 29 inducting five NDA legislators taking the Ministerial strength to 11.

However, one of the Ministers, Radha Krishna Kishore of the Janata Dal United (JDU), resigned a few days ago following pressure from a couple of party legislators - leaving two posts vacant.

Munda has to thus induct two more Ministers to meet the constitutional requirement of a maximum of 12 Ministers under the 91st amendment.