diff --git a/pkg/rescheduler/client/client.go b/pkg/rescheduler/client/client.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package rescheduler
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"k8s.io/client-go/rest"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/clientset_generated/clientset"
+
+	"github.com/aveshagarwal/rescheduler/pkg/utils"
+)
+
+func CreateClient(kubeconfig string) (clientset.Interface, error) {
+	var cfg *rest.Config
+	if len(kubeconfig) != 0 {
+		master, err := utils.GetMasterFromKubeconfig(kubeconfig)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to parse kubeconfig file: %v ", err)
+		}
+
+		cfg, err = clientcmd.BuildConfigFromFlags(master, kubeconfig)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unable to build config: %v", err)
+		}
+
+	} else {
+		cfg, err = rest.InClusterConfig()
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("Unable to build in cluster config: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return clientset.NewForConfig(cfg)
+}