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Karnataka CM Shivakumar Allocates Portfolios to New Ministers
Karnataka is a big state in India, and its leader is called the Chief Minister.
His name is D K Shivakumar.
The Chief Minister has a team of helpers called ministers, and each minister takes care of a different topic, such as housing, farming, or schools.
Recently, he added 19 new ministers to his team.
After adding them, he had to decide which topic each helper would look after, and he announced his choices on Wednesday.
Two ministers were not happy with the jobs they got at first, so he gave them different jobs.
This team of 33 ministers has no women in it.
One helper spot is still empty, so someone may join later.
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar allocated portfolios to 19 newly inducted ministers on Wednesday, August 12, ten days after expanding his cabinet.
B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan received Housing, Lakshman Savadi Co-operation, and Rudrappa Manappa Lamani Sugar and Textiles.
Ramalinga Reddy was moved from Major Irrigation to Forest, Ecology and Environment, and K H Muniyappa from Food and Civil Supplies to Social Welfare, after both were unhappy with their earlier assignments.
The 33-member Shivakumar-led cabinet has no woman minister and one berth remains vacant.
Shivakumar retained finance, cabinet affairs, law and justice and other key portfolios; articles differ on whether the allocation came a day before or a day after the Monsoon session began.
- Who
- Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and the newly inducted and reshuffled ministers of his cabinet.
- What
- Portfolios were allocated to 19 newly inducted ministers, with changes made to departments held by Ramalinga Reddy and K H Muniyappa.
- Where
- Karnataka, India, with reports filed from Bengaluru.
- When
- Wednesday, August 12, ten days after the August 3 cabinet expansion.
- Why
- To assign departmental responsibilities to the newly inducted ministers around the time of the state legislature's Monsoon session, and because two ministers were unhappy with their initial portfolios and requested changes.
Key facts
- Chief Minister
- D K Shivakumar
- New ministers inducted
- 19
- Total cabinet strength
- 33
- Vacant berths
- 1
- Cabinet expansion date
- August 3
- Portfolio allocation date
- Wednesday, August 12
- Women ministers
- 0
Sources
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