NB In List | Karnataka Cabinet expansion: 24 ministers to be inducted into Siddaramaiah government- Here're names

Karnataka got a full cabinet on Saturday, with 24 Congress MLAs taking oath as ministers, a week after chief minister Siddaramaiah, deputy chief minister DK Shivakumarand eight other ministers were sworn in.

 

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar in Bengaluru.(PTI file) The Congress on Friday announced the names of 24 more ministers, taking the strength of the cabinet to 34, the maximum allowed under the law.

 

 

Of the new names, six hail from the Lingayat community, four from the Vokkaliga community, three from scheduled castes, two from scheduled tribes, and five from other backward classes. The Muslim, Jain, Brahmin and Namdhari Reddy communities have one representative each in this list. Only one woman is part of the cabinet.

 

Laxmi R Hebbalkar, retained her seat from Belgaum Rural constituency by gaining around 1,06,805 votes in the recently held Karnataka assembly election, is the only woman minister in the Siddaramaiah cabinet. She defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Nagesh Annappa Manolkar.

 

 

 

The announcement came after four days of hectic deliberations between Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar and the Congress leadership in Delhi, attempting to strike a balance between the aspirations of leaders from different castes, regions and allegiances. This was made particularly tricky given the Congress’s impressive victory, the best in the state since 1989, winning 135 seats in the 224-member assembly.

 

 

HK Patil

 

Krishna Byre Gowda

 

N Cheluvarayaswamy

 

K Venkatesh

 

HC Mahadevappa

 

Eshwar Khandre

 

Kyathasandra N. Rajanna

 

Dinesh Gundu Rao

 

Sharanabasappa Darshanapur

 

Shivanand Patil

 

Timmapur Ramappa Balappa

SS Mallikarjun

Tangadagi Shivaraj Sangappa

 

Sharanaprakash Rudrappa

 

Patil Mankal Vaidya

 

Laxmi R Hebbalkar

 

Rahim Khan

 

D. Sudhakar

 

Santhosh S Lad

 

NS Boseraju

 

Suresha BS

  

Madhu Bangarappa

 

Dr MC Sudhakar

 

B Nagendra

 

According to sources, Cheluvarayaswamy is likely to get the transport portfolio, Muniyappa will get revenue, Satish Jarikiholi might get the public works department, G Parameshwar might get home, Byrati Suresh might get the urban development department’s charge, MB Patil might take over as industries minister, Nagendra might get youth and sports, Venkatesh might get animal husbandry, Timmpur is likely to excise and Ramalinga Reddy might take charge as the minister of Bangalore development department.