Last Update: May 27, 2023, 07:47 AM IST
Minister of State KH Muniyappa said the portfolios of the ministers involved would be announced by Saturday evening. (File Photo/PTI)
The Karnataka cabinet has 34 ministers, of whom 10, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, were sworn in on May 20.
According to Congress party leaders, 24 more MLAs will take oath as ministers in the Karnataka cabinet on Saturday. The Karnataka cabinet has 34 ministers, of whom 10, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, were sworn in on May 20.
according to a PTI According to reports, MLAs HK Patil, Krishna Byregowda, N Cheluvarayaswamy, K Venkatesh, HC Mahadevappa, Congress working president Eshwar Khandre and former state Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao will take oath today.
Others in the list include Kyathasandra N Rajanna, Sharanbasappa Darsanapur, Shivananda Patil, Ramappa Balappa Timmapur, SS Mallikarjuna, Shivraj Sangappa Tangadgi, Sharanprakash Rudrappa Patil, Mankal Vaidya, Lakshmi Hebbalkar, Rahim Khan, D Sudhakar, Santosh Lad, NS Boseraju, Suresh Bs included. , Madhu Bangarappa, MC Sudhakar and B Nagendra.
The list includes three MLAs from Scheduled Castes, two from Scheduled Tribes, five from Other Backward Communities Kuruba, Raju, Maratha, Ediga and Mogaveera and one Brahmin MLA.
Quoting an official statement, a PTI Seven ministers each are from the old Mysore and Kalyana Karnataka regions, six from Kittur Karnataka region and two from central Karnataka, the report said. CM Siddaramaiah said the cabinet will have eight Lingayats representing different sub-sects of the community. There will be five Vokkaligas, including DK Shivakumar, the statement said.
Minister of State KH Muniyappa said the portfolios of the ministers involved would be announced by Saturday evening.
The list of 24 MLAs was finalized after several rounds of discussions between top party leaders including Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar and AICC general secretaries KC Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala. The list was then approved by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior party leader Sonia Gandhi.