Karnataka Fisheries Minister S Angara, who had announced his decision to quit politics after he was denied ticket to contest from Sullia assembly segment, retracted his statement on Friday saying he will campaign for BJP candidate Bhagirathi Murulya.
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.
Karnataka: Yediyurappa Allocates Portfolios to New Ministers, Reshuffles Cabinet
Ending a long wait, Yediyurappa had expanded his 17-month old cabinet on January 13, by inducting seven ministers.
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa. Photo: PTI.
Politics21/Jan/2021
Bengaluru: 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.
Murugesh Nirani will be the mines and geology minister, and Arvind Limbavali gets forest department, according to an official gazette notification issued in this regard with the consent of the governor.