BENGALURU: Karnataka chief minister D Okay Shivakumar on Wednesday allotted portfolios to the 23 ministers in his cupboard, earlier than the state meeting’s monsoon session begins.DK Shivakumar retained key portfolios together with finance, cupboard affairs, personnel and administrative reforms, intelligence, data, legislation and justice, parliamentary affairs and laws, agriculture advertising, city and nation planning, and concrete native our bodies beneath BDA and BMRDA. He may even maintain all unallotted portfolios.Among the many main allocations, U T Khader has been given minority welfare, Haj and Wakf, and well being and household welfare. R Ramalinga Reddy will deal with forest, ecology and setting, whereas Okay H Muniyappa has been assigned social welfare.The opposite portfolios embrace:
- B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan — Housing
- Lakshman Savadi — Cooperation, excluding agriculture advertising
- Rudrappa Manappa Lamani — Sugar and Textiles
- Shivaraj Tangadagi — Backward Courses Welfare; Kannada and Tradition
- T Raghumurthy — ST Welfare
- Dr Ajay Singh — Minor Irrigation; Science and Expertise
- Cheluvarayaswamy — Main and Medium Irrigation
- Madhu Bangarappa — Major and Secondary Training
- Basavaraj Raya Reddy — Larger Training
- Shivalinge Gowda — Excise
- Puttaranga Shetty — Animal Husbandry and Sericulture
- Vijayananda Kashappanavar — Small Scale Industries; Public Enterprises
- Santhosh Lad — Labour and Employment
- Okay S Basavanthappa — Muzrai; Fisheries; Ports and Inland Water
- S S Mallikarjun — Mines and Geology; Horticulture
- Rizwan Arshad — Meals and Civil Provides; Shopper Affairs
- Narendra Swamy — Agriculture
- H C Balakrishna — Municipal Administration
- B Nagendra — Planning and Statistics
The allocation comes after Shivakumar determined in opposition to an instantaneous cupboard reshuffle following discussions with the Congress excessive command in Delhi.After returning to Bengaluru on Monday, Shivakumar had mentioned the federal government would contemplate a reshuffle, together with the induction of a lady minister, after the monsoon session.The choice adopted rising discontent amongst senior Congress MLAs who had been not noted of the expanded cupboard. The celebration had been weighing adjustments to accommodate among the disgruntled leaders, however sources mentioned dropping newly inducted ministers may set off one other spherical of dissent.Congress had taken practically two months to develop the ministry after Shivakumar and the primary batch of 13 ministers had been sworn in on June 3. Nineteen ministers had been subsequently inducted, including to the strain on the management to settle competing calls for over portfolios.Muniyappa, who was earlier dealing with meals and civil provides, had been searching for the social welfare division. The allocation provides him the portfolio he had been lobbying for.The Congress management can also be going through calls for for larger illustration for ladies within the ministry. Laxmi Hebbalkar, Annapoorna E Thukaram and Kaneez Fathima had been among the many names thought of for induction, however the challenge has been deferred for now.
