New Delhi: Nationalist Congress a Party president, Sharad Pawar,
today said he had insisted for Agriculture portfolio in the Manmohan
Singh Ministry and he was happy he would get it.
"Seventy per cent of people of our country live in villages, earning
livelihood from agriculture. My heart beats for these people," Pawar
told reporters here.

He said he was satisfied with the representation his party got in
the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.

NCP, with nine MPs, has been given a cabinet and two Minister of
State slots.

Pawar denied he lobbied for the job of convenor of the alliance
saying "We are not discussing that."

On the coalition's Common Minimum Programme, he said "whatever we
suggested, whatever proposals we made, have been accepted."


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Two other Members of NCP in Manmohan singh Cabinet is Mr.Praful
Patel and Mrs.Suryakanta PAtil of Hingloi

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