Karnataka Cabinet enlargement: 24 legislators take oath as ministers in Siddaramaiah govt, examine full checklist (Photo: ANI)
Congress authorities led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah carried out the cupboard enlargement on Saturday on the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru. In the swearing-in ceremony, 24 legislators took oath as a minister. The Karnataka authorities can have 34 ministers. Ten of them, together with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, have been sworn in on May 20.
The new ministers took oath within the presence of CM Siddaramaiah and his deputy Shivakumar. The Karnataka cupboard was expanded after the CM and his deputy held consultations with the occasion’s central management. Congress bagged 135 seats within the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ousting the ruling BJP, which received 66 seats within the southern state.
List of all 24 ministers in Karnataka Cabinet right here:
- HK Patil
- Krishna Byregowda
- N Cheluvarayaswamy
- Ok Venkatesh
- HC Mahadevappa
- Eshwar Khandre (Congress working president)
- Dinesh Gundu Rao (former state Congress president)
- Kyathasandra N Rajanna
- Sharanabasappa Darshanapur
- Shivanand Patil
- Ramappa Balappa Timmapur
- SS Mallikarjun
- Shivaraj Sangappa Tangadagi
- Sharanaprakash Rudrappa Patil
- Mankal Vaidya
- Laxmi Hebbalkar
- Rahim Khan
- D Sudhakar
- Santosh Lad
- NS Boseraju
- Suresha BS
- Madhu Bangarappa
- MC Sudhakar
- B Nagendra
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