COMMENT | Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof must have got wind of a cabinet reshuffle but as a seasoned minister, he knows his place and will not say more than necessary when cornered with an uncomfortable poser by the media.

Assuming Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has shared something on the cabinet reshuffle with him since he is one of his two deputies, Fadillah was right to state that any reshuffle was the prime minister’s call.

“I have not heard anything about it. There is no discussion about that. That is the sole prerogative of the prime minister,” he told Bernama when asked about talks of an imminent cabinet reshuffle.

Still, there is really nothing extraordinary about a cabinet reshuffle as that has been carried out whenever a sitting prime minister feels it is necessary to do so.

It is now six months since Anwar formed his first cabinet and the general feeling is that the prime minister should seriously...