Bommai expands team, no one named Dy. CM

Twenty-nine ministers were inducted in Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai’s new Council of Ministers, which has at least 23 ministers from the previous B.S. Yeddiyurappa government.

Among the ministers in the new Cabinet are eight Lingayats, seven Vokkaligas, seven OBCs, the SCs, two Brahmins, one ST, one Reddy, and a woman.

The new ministers were administered oath of office and secrecy by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot at the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.

Earlier on Wednesday, Bommai said there will be no deputy chief ministers in his Cabinet as per the high command’s directions.

Also Yediyurappa’s younger son and state BJP vice-president B.Y. Vijayendra is not among the ministers who will be sworn-in.

Among those in Yediyurappa’s Cabinet who made it to his successor’s team are Govind Karjol (Mudhol), K.S. Eshwarappa (Shivamogga), R. Ashoka (Padmanabhanagar), C.N. Ashwath Narayan (Malleshwaram), B. Sriramulu (Molkalmuru), Umesh Katti (Hukkeri), S.T. Somashekar (Yeshwanthpur), K. Sudhakar (Chikkaballapura), and B.C. Patil (Hirekeruru).

Also, J.C. Madhuswamy (Chikkanayakanahalli), Prabhu Chauhan (Aurad), V. Somanna (Govindraj Nagar), S. Angara (Sullia), Anand Singh (Vijayanagara), C.C. Patil (Nargund), M.T.B. Nagaraj (MLC), and Kota Srinivas Poojary (MLC)

The fresh faces are V. Sunil Kumar (Karkala), AragaJnanendra (Thirthahalli), Munirathna (RR Nagar), Halappa Achar (Yelburga), Shankar Patil Munenkopp (Navalgunda) and B.C. Nagesh (Tiptur).