Chennai: In yet another bid to woo foreign investors to the State, Chief Minister M K Stalin will be visiting the USA in the last week of August when several meetings are said to have been arranged for him with industrialists and business associations.
Since Stalin is likely to leave Chennai on August 22 by a scheduled flight and return three weeks later, the news has triggered speculations on the State Minister who would be holding charge of the State in the long absence of the Chief Minister.
Apart from the revival of the old rumour over State Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin being made Deputy Chief Minister and handed over the charge when Stalin would be away in the US, the grapevine now has it that there would be a reshuffle in the Ministry that would have surprises.
Not only would some new Ministers inducted into the Cabinet and some dropped, there could be change of portfolios. With the State government making sweeping changes in the top bureaucracy and police department recently,…