DISSENT BREWS IN BOMMAI’S CABINET AFTER ALLOCATION OF PORTFOLIOS
Karnataka is a living example of the adage that the more things change, the more they remain the same, and so, 16 days after BS Yediyurappa resigned as chief minister amid widespread dissent among the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s legislators, the new chief minister Basavaraj Bommai finds himself hemmed in by dissenting legislators wanting more.
On Wednesday, hours after tourism minister Anand Singh closed his office in Hospet in Vijayanagar, presumably indicating his intentions to resign from the cabinet, the chief minister said disgruntlement among some ministers over the portfolio allocation will be resolved smoothly. Singh, previously the forest minister, has expressed his displeasure after he was made minister for tourism in the new cabinet. A former Congress MLA, he resigned, defected to the BJP in 2019, and sees himself as one of the architects of its climb to power in the state.
“I was the first one to resign from the assembly. After that others began resigning. Because of our resignations, the BJP came to power in the state. Party leaders should have allocated a major portfolio to me,” Singh said on Saturday. The defection of the lawmakers brought down the Congress-janata Dal (S) government that came to power after the 2018 assembly elections.
On Wednesday, Singh visited a temple to offer prayers, similar to the ones he offered before his resignation from the Congress two years ago. All of this seems to have had the desired effect on the new CM. On Wednesday, he told reporters that everything would be set right soon. “Anand Singh and I are friends for three decades.. I am aware of his views, and I too have conveyed my views. Everything will be set right after he comes and speaks to me,” he said.
BENGALURU:
TOTAL COVID CASES
20,411(+11) 260,319(+671)
322,885(+114)
6,926,150(+48,780)
599,678(+105) 10,489,312(+153,214)
770,130(+16)
13,193,996
953,870(+19)
35,971,880
825,101
37,975,741
10,654(+1)
673,592(+4,032)
6,369,002(+5,560) 47,746,896(+266,505)
172,188
1,413,586(+8,219)
2,922,875 33,795,595(+304,014)
10,268
68,936(+347)
3,610,193(+23,500) 22,443,788(+243,954)
61,997(+5)
942,061(+10,214)
121,880(+114)
761,010
TOTAL DOSES ADMINISTERED
208,990(+374) 5,876,706(+136,839)
1,708,836(+24)
55,519,039
725,326(+47) 28,337,932
347,454(+14)
10,608,211
791,990(+10)
36,154,709
1,003,439(+83) 11,885,007(+74,424)
28,175(+157)
653,326
577,035(+886) 13,063,707(+107,303)
50,793(+188)
888,795(+5,022)
28,875(+64) 800,739(+3,794)
106,030(+606)
1,424,590(+10,308)
46,320(+863)
869,128(+4,196)
80,657(+244) 3,232,765
1,535,699(+700)
33,045,123(+315,132)
990,075(+1,078) 18,717,390(+248,351)
7,548(+2)
314,810(+2,823)
650,835(+482) 15,771,623(+50,327)