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Krishna made Indian FM

AFP, New Delhi
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh distributed key cabinet portfolios on Saturday after the Congress party's resounding victory in national elections.
Singh named outgoing foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, 73, regarded as one of India's canniest politicians, to the finance ministry to steer the revival of the economy,
which has slowed as a result of the Somanahalli Mallaiah
global financial crisis. Krishna
Singh brought in a new face to the cabinet as external affairs
.minister -- Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, 77, a former chief
FROM PAGE 1 minister of southern Karnataka state and party veteran to guide India's foreign policy during a period of heightened tensions with neighbouringl’akistan.
Palaniappan Chidambaram, seen as having overhauled India's security in the wake of the Islamist attacks on Mumbai last November that left 166 dead, will continue to head the home ministry, a government statement said.
AK Anthony will retain charge of the defence ministry, said the statement, which added the new parliament would convene June 1.
Sharad Pawar will keep the agricultural ministry while Mamata Banerjee will serve as railway minister.
Both Pawar and Banerjee are key regional allies in the Congress-led coalition which won 262 seats in the 543-member national parliament, just 10 short of the 272 needed for a working majority.
Singh, a 76-year-old, soft-spoken economist, is the first prime minister since the country's post-independence
leader Jawaharlal Nehru to be returned to office after com-pletingafullterm.
"Portfolios of other ministers will be announced later," a government spokesman said without elaborating.
Congress had campaigned hard on a poverty-alleviation platform for India's rural millions, and voters also responded to the image of Singh as a steady, pragmatic leader capable of steering the country through the economic downturn.
The alliance quickly garnered pledges of support from independents and others to take its voting strength to 322.
But a row over cabinet positions between the Congress and a key southern coalition ally, the DMK, resulted in Singh finalising a shorter list of ministers with more expected to be sworn in next week.