Inevitably the issue of who would do what, why and how – the matrix of turf control in government – came up. The matter was duly referred to the prime minister to be taken up in the cabinet, which now involved the IT minister, who was from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the home minister, who was from the Congress and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, a technocrat. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, recognising the complexity of issues, created an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on 4 December 2006, headed by the redoubtable Pranab Mukherjee, formerly the external affairs
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