Karnataka Government Cabinet Formation LIVE Updates: The Cabinet expansion, which was finalised after a lot of back and forth on the choice of ministers, released by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah last night, following his return from Delhi.
Karnataka Cabinet Swearing-in Ceremony LIVE Updates Today: A week assuming power in Karnataka, the newly elected Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has scheduled the swearing-in ceremony of its state Cabinet comprising 24 ministers at 11:45 am today. The oath-taking ceremony will take place at the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.
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The Cabinet expansion, which was finalised after a lot of back and forth on the choice of ministers, released by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah last night, following his return from Delhi. MLAs H K Patil, Krishna Byregowda, N Cheluvarayaswamy, K Venkatesh, H C Mahadevappa, Congress working president Eshwar Khandre and former state Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao are among those who be inducted into the Cabinet today.
The list of ministers consists of eight Lingayats, including sole woman minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar; seven from Scheduled Caste (SC) communities; five Vokkaligas; two Muslims; three from Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities; six from Other Backward Classes (OBC) groups, including one Maratha; one Brahmin, one Christian, and one Jain. The government will then have 34 ministers, which is inclusive of ten ministers, who, along with Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, were sworn-in on May 20.
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Among the highlights of the final few sessions of the 15th Karnataka Assembly, which has been replaced by a new Assembly following the May 10 elections, was the performance of Deputy Leader of the Opposition U T Khader, the Congress MLA from Mangalore and a former Health Minister. Calm and composed, 53-year-old Khader is the son of former Congress leader and state minister U T Fareed who used to represent the erstwhile Ullal constituency, now the Mangalore Assembly constituency.
Before the Siddaramaiah-led Congress Karnataka government was sworn in on Saturday, a television debate took the rare turn of discussing the question of the state missing out on a Dalit chief minister once again. With the state never having had a Dalit CM, the debate veered to the topic of whether political parties were going by the caste playbook in keeping Dalits away from the post or whether Dalit leaders were not strong enough politically to stake claim.
While there has been a demand from Dalit communities in Karnataka to appoint one of their own as CM, the Congress, the BJP, and the Janata Dal (Secular) have passed up many opportunities to fulfil the demand and preferred to stick to the members of more dominant castes that seem far more united.
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First published on: 27-05-2023 at 07:00 IST
