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A week after expanding his cabinet, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa allocated portfolios to seven new ministers and also reshuffled the departments of some others. Ending a long wait, Yediyurappa expanded his 17-month old cabinet on January 13, by inducting seven ministers and also dropped H Nagesh who was holding the Excise portfolio, but the exercise led to resentment with several aspirants expressing reservations over not being included in the ministry.
Against the sanctioned strength of 34, the Yediyurappa cabinet now has 33 members. The Forest Department has been taken back from Anand Singh, who has now been given the Tourism portfolio in addition to Environment and Ecology. The newly inducted Aravind Limbavali has been allotted the Forest Department.
B S Yediyurappa allocates portfolios to new Ministers, effects changes for some
Among the new Ministers, Umesh Katti gets the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs while S Angara has been given Fisheries, Ports and Inland Transport. PTI
Karntaka CM BS Yediyurappa (Image: Twitter @BSYBJP)
A week after expanding his cabinet, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday allocated portfolios to the seven new inductees and also effected a reshufle of the departments of some ministers.
Among the new Ministers, Umesh Katti gets the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs while S Angara has been given Fisheries, Ports and Inland Transport.
Yediyurappa allocates portfolios to new Ministers, effects changes for some
Yediyurappa allocates portfolios to new Ministers, effects changes for some
Yediyurappa on Thursday allocated portfolios to the seven new inductees and also effected a reshuffle of the departments of some ministers.
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Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa
A week after expanding his cabinet, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday allocated portfolios to the seven new inductees and also effected a reshuffle of the departments of some ministers.
Among the new Ministers, Umesh Katti gets the Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs while S Angara has been given Fisheries, Ports and Inland Transport.
Nagaraja got the excise (liquor) department, a political markdown as he expected housing – a portfolio he had held in the previous JD(S)-Congress regime. His political calculations probably went wrong after he switched sides from the Congress to BJP as he first lost his assembly polls, and now the exercise portfolio has come like a bolt from the blue. He has now demanded housing, and told the media he has nothing much to do in the excise department.
K Gopalaiah and JC Madhuswamy were cut up because they have landed new departments. Gopalaiah has been moved from food to horticulture, while Madhuswamy has been stripped of his pet minor irrigation department. He was keen on a department linked to agriculture. His law department has now been given to home minister Basavaraj Bommai as an additional portfolio.