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.
Over a week after expanding his 17-month-old Cabinet, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday effected a minor reshuffle and also allocated portfolios to seven new Ministers. Yediyurappa divested JC Madhuswamy of Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Legislation and Minor Irrigation and allocated him Medical Education, Kannada, and Culture Departments. Health Minister K Sudhakar was relieved of Medical Education in just three months, who was given Health portfolio by taking it away from incumbent Social Welfare Minister B Sreeramulu. Madhuswamy is a key member of the Yediyurappa camp, who put up strong defence of the state government in the state legislature. Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Legislation Department has been given to Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai as additional charge.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa today allocated portfolios to the new Karnataka cabinet. (File)
Bengaluru:
A week after expanding his cabinet, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa today 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.
Karnataka Cabinet reshuffled, portfolios given to 7 inductees
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Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa.. Image Source: IANS News
Bengaluru, Jan 21 : Over a week after expanding his 17-month-old Cabinet, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday effected a minor reshuffle and also allocated portfolios to seven new Ministers.
Yediyurappa divested JC Madhuswamy of Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Legislation and Minor Irrigation and allocated him Medical Education, Kannada, and Culture Departments.
Health Minister K Sudhakar was relieved of Medical Education in just three months, who was given Health portfolio by taking it away from incumbent Social Welfare Minister B Sreeramulu.