Karnataka cabinet expansion 24 mlas including 1 woman take oath as ministers
Karnataka got a full cabinet on Saturday, with 24 Congress MLAs taking oath as ministers.Karnataka got a full cabinet on Saturday, with 24 Congress MLAs taking oath as ministers, a week after chief minister Siddaramaiah, deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar and eight other ministers were sworn in.
The Congress on Friday announced the names of 24 more ministers, taking the strength of the cabinet to 34, the maximum allowed under the law.
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.
Laxmi R Hebbalkar, retained her seat from Belgaum Rural constituency by gaining around 1,06,805 votes in the recently held Karnataka assembly election, is the only woman minister in the Siddaramaiah cabinet. She defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Nagesh Annappa Manolkar.
The announcement came after four days of hectic deliberations between Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar and the Congress leadership in Delhi, attempting to strike a balance between the aspirations of leaders from different castes, regions and allegiances. This was made particularly tricky given the Congress’s impressive victory, the best in the state since 1989, winning 135 seats in the 224-member assembly.
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