Failed to communicate my good work to bosses: Rudy

new delhi — “Boss is always right” and “failed to communicate my good work to bosses” is how Rajiv Pratap Rudy reacted on Tuesday to a query on the possible reasons for his being dropped as the Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the latest reshuffle.

“I tried my best... Even my successor will need some time to deliver visible changes,” Rudy told NDTV.

Rudy was replaced by Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was not just elevated to Cabinet Minister rank but also given additional responsibility of the Skill Development Ministry.

“When I was made minister in 2014, I had to look for officers, create a roadmap and structure... All that is there now across the country. There are centres imparting training to youths as per the Prime Minister’s vision,” he added. Rudy told NDTV: “I can’t take my certificate if the boss (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) thinks that I failed. The boss is always right.”

“But yes, I failed to communicate

No one can separate me from Ganga. Ganga is still with me... Uma Bharti

to people and my bosses (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) the work done under their guidance in such a short time,” the MP from Saran in Bihar said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped six ministers from his council of ministers in the latest reshuffle on Sunday. “How can I create employment? My brief was to raise an employable workforce. Getting jobs to them was never there in the brief given to me,” he added.

Meanwhile, apparently upset over being stripped of the Ganga Rejuvenation portfolio, Uma Bharti on Tuesday said no one can separate her from the river Ganga and announced that she will begin a padyatra along the banks of the holy river from Gangasagar next month.

Bharti, from whom Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation portfolio was taken and handed over to Nitin Gadkari in Sunday’s Cabinet reshuffle, also wondered how Gadkari could get this portfolio if she had failed because she had worked in consultation with him.

“No one can separate me from Ganga. Ganga is still with me... If I had failed how could Gadkari get this portfolio because I had worked in close coordination and close consultations with him (Gadkari) on Namami Gange project,” she told media persons at the Drinking water and Sanitation Ministry,

How can I create employment? My brief was to raise an employable workforce. Rajiv Pratap Rudy

whose charge she was given on Sunday. “I have successfully implemented most of the projects of my ministry and completed most of the projects,” she said.

Bharti said she will begin a padyatra from Gangasagar in West Bengal from October but hastened to add that it was not an act of defiance. —