After days of hectic deliberations, the Congress party has finalized the list of 24 Karnataka MLAs who will be sworn in as ministers in the Siddaramaiah-led government on Saturday, according to people familiar with the matter. As many as eight ministers along with the chief minister and his deputy have already taken oath on May 20. The first cabinet expansion will increase the number of ministers in the Karnataka government to 34, the maximum allowed in the 224-member assembly.
The list of likely ministers likely to take oath on Saturday includes Dinesh Gundu Rao, Krishna Byre Gowda, Eshwar Khandre, Raheem Khan, Santosh Lad, KN Rajanna, Peeriyapattana Venkatesh, HC Mahadevappa, Byrathi Suresh, Shivaraj Timmapurgi and B B Nagendra, all of whom are considered close to Siddaramaiah.
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These MLAs on the list who are considered close to DK Shivakumar include Lakshmi Hebbalkar, Madhu Bangarappa, D Sudhakar, Cheluvaraya Swami, Mankul Vaidya and MC Sudhakar. N S Boseraju is the only MLC whose name has been approved in the list of new ministers to be included in the state cabinet.
Karnataka Congress in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said on Friday that the state cabinet expansion will take place on Saturday. Surjewala told reporters that the decision to expand the cabinet rests in the court of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who told him that the swearing-in of the expanded cabinet would take place tomorrow.
“The decision to form the cabinet and who to include in the cabinet rests with the chief minister. Siddaramaiah discussed various names with the party, now we have left it to him to decide… I was told by him (Siddaramaiah) that the next expanded cabinet tomorrow will take oath in Karnataka,” Surjewala said.
Both Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar were in the national capital for the past three days and held several rounds of discussions. The final list was approved after discussions with Kharg and Rahul Gandhi.
Here is the list of ministers expected to be oath in:
1. H.K. He suffered
2. Krishna Byre Gowda
3. N. Cheluvarayaswamy
4. K. Venkatesh
5. H.C. Mahadevappa
6. Eshwar Khandre
7. Kyathasandra N. Rajanna
8. Dinesh Gundu Rao
9. Sharanabasappa Darshanapur
10. Shivanand Patil
11. Timmapur Ramappa Balappa
12. S.S. Mallikarjun
13. Tangadagi Shivaraj Sangappa
14. Sharanaprakash Rudrappa
15. Patil Mankal Vaidya
16. Laxmi R. Hebbalkar
17. Rahim Khan
18. D. Sudhakar
19. Santhosh S. Lad
20. N.S. I’m screwing up
21. Suresha. B.S.
22. Madhu Bangarappa
23. Dr. M.C. sudhakar
24. B. Nagendra
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