Bengaluru, Dec 28: Lingayat stalwart MB Patil has replaced Dalit stalwart G Parameshwara as the home minister of Karnataka following the recent cabinet expansion.
According to the new list of portfolios finalised by the Congress high command yesterday, Parameshwara, who is also the deputy chief minister of Karnataka, has been given the IT/BT, Science & Technology, Law and Parliamentary Affairs portfolio in addition to Bengaluru City Development.
Parameshwara was reportedly miffed at the idea of letting go of the Home department portfolio. An official notification is yet to be issued on the allocation of portfolios.
While DK Shivakumar has been divested of the medical education portfolio, he has been given Kannada & Culture and Information & Public Relations.
U T Khader, the only Congress legislator from twin coastal districts of Dkakshina Kannada and Udupi, has been divested of Housing portfolio.
The other allocations made by the Congress high command are as follows:
Satish Jarkiholi - Forest, Ecology and Environment
CS Shivalli – Municipalities
MTB Nagaraju – Housing
E Tukaram - Medical Education
PT Parameshwar Naik - Muzrai, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship & Livelihood
Rahim Khan - Youth Empowerment & Sports; RB Timmapur - Port & Inland Transport and Sugar
Eight Congress legislators - seven from North Karnataka - were inducted into the Cabinet on December 22. With that, the Congress now has 22 ministers in the 34-member Cabinet. The current size of the Cabinet is 32 as the JD(S) is yet to fill up two positions.
Here is the fresh list of ministers and their new portfolios:
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