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Bengaluru, May 29: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allocated portfolios to ministers in his Cabinet, keeping the Finance department with himself while assigning the Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development departments to his deputy DK Shivakumar.
Amid talks of a possible alliance of her party with the Congress in Telangana, the YSR Telangana Party chief YS Sharmila on Monday met with Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar at his residence in Bengaluru.
Before the upcoming BBMP elections, Shivakumar got the crucial Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development portfolios.
Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara has been appointed as the Home Minister, and Priyank Kharge is the new Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.
Shivakumar has got the all-important Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development, including the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited.