AMN / BENGALURU
A week after assuming power in Karnataka, the Congress Government today inducted 24 legislators into the cabinet. Governor Thawarchand Gehlot administered the oath of office to the legislators in Raj Bhavan.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, Speaker U T Khader and other cabinet colleagues were present on this occasion. The supporters and followers of the Ministers who were sworn in were present in large numbers at the ceremony.
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.
On the 20th of May, the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister along with eight ministers were sworn in at a mammoth public function in Kanteerava Stadium in the presence of senior Congress national leaders and opposition party leaders. After the swearing-in today, the full Cabinet with 34 Ministers is formed on Saturday.
Prominent among those inducted into the cabinet today were H K Patil, Krishna Byregowda, Dr. H C Mahadevappa, Dr. Sharanaprakash Patil, Eeshwar Khandre, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Laxmi Hebbalkar, Madhu Bangarappa and Dr.M C Sudhakar.
Here’s the list of ministers who took oath:
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