Cabinet rejig: MB Patil is new home minister; DyCM gets IT/BT, UTK loses Housing

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December 28, 2018

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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Brahmin Savarkar was non-veg eater; wasn't against cow slaughter: Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao

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October 3,2024

Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao reminded that V D Savarkar was not against cow slaughter as he himself was non-veg eater, PTI reported on Thursday.

"As a Brahmin he was eating meat, and he was openly propagating eating meat," said the minister at an event in Bengaluru.

Reacting to Gundu Rao's claim, BJP MP Anurag Thakur called Congress a "factory of lies" as he warned that India won't tolerate any disrespect towards Savarkar.

"By disrespecting Veer Savarkar they have shown that they don't respect freedom fighters. During the Congress government, Sardar Bhagat Singh was termed a separatist in textbooks...By making those who want to break the nation join the congress party, Rahul Gandhi is taking forward the ideology of 'tukde tukde' and he is a 'modern Jinnah' who speaks ill of the country abroad...," he said.

Meanwhile, a court in Maharashtra's Nashik district summoned Congress MP Rahul Gandhi earlier this week in a defamation case filed against him for his alleged objectionable remarks against the Hindutva ideologue.

The complainant, who is the director of an NGO, claimed he watched a press conference addressed by Gandhi in Hingoli and also a speech made by the Congress leader in November 2022.

He alleged that Gandhi, on the two occasions, by his words and visual representations knowingly harmed the reputation of Veer Savarkar and also tried to defame the latter's image in the society.

According to the complainant, Gandhi said "Savarkar is BJP and RSS jin" which was defamatory in nature.

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