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Portfolios were allocated for the newly-sworn successful Ministers of D.K. Shivakumar-led Karnataka Cabinet precocious connected Thursday (June 5, 2026), aft hours of uncertainty, intense negotiations and disgruntlement among immoderate of the Ministers.
Mr. Shivakumar has kept Finance and fto spell of the most-contested and coveted Bengaluru Development portfolio, which helium held arsenic the Deputy Chief Minister. It has been handed to Krishna Byre Gowda. Senior Minister and eight-time legislator Ramalinga Reddy, who had sought the portfolio, has been fixed Major and Medium Irrigation portfolio. Unhappy, helium had earlier successful the time threatened to quit.
Priyank Kharge volition beryllium the caller Home Minister, who volition besides clasp IT & BT and e-governance. Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara has been fixed Revenue and Sports, portion Eshwar Khandre has been allocated Rural Development and Panchayat Raj. Byrathi Suresh has been fixed Transport.
Yathindra Siddaramaiah, a first-time Minister and lad of erstwhile Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, gets Urban Development (excluding Bengaluru).
Satish Jharkiholi, K.H. Muniyappa and M.B. Patil get to clasp Public Works, Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Major and Heavy Industries, Infrastructure Development, respectively, that they managed successful the Siddaramaiah-led government. K.J. George gets Tourism successful summation to Energy that helium held earlier. Sharan Prakash Patil has besides retained his earlier portfolios Medical Education and Skilll Development. U.T. Khader, who resigned arsenic Speaker to articulation the Cabinet, got Health and Family Welfare.
Allocation of Bengaluru Development portfolio is apt to proceed to beryllium a contentious issue, particularly up of the impending civic polls successful Bengaluru. Mr. Shivakumar held the portfolio being the Deputy Chief Minister since the Congress authorities came to powerfulness successful 2023.
Trouble, it is learnt, was brewing since precocious connected Wednesday nighttime aft the caller Ministers were informally told astir the portfolio being allocated to them. Mr. Reddy, 1 of the elder astir Congress person from Bengaluru, is learnt to person aired his disappointment aft being told that helium would get an “important portfolio”, but that Bengaluru improvement would spell to Mr. Gowda.
Sources adjacent to him said that helium had been promised by Mr. Shivakumar that the portfolio would beryllium fixed to him, which did not happen, starring to his dismay.
