Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday allocated portfolios to his new 28-member ministry, keeping key posts such as finance, energy, industries, IT and Bangalore city with himself. According to a Raj Bhavan communique, Governor HR Bhardwaj allocated the various portfolios on the advice of the chief minister to 20 cabinet ministers and eight ministers of state.
Besides the key portfolios, the chief minister will also be in-charge of five other departments for which ministers are to be appointed.
Besides the key portfolios, Siddaramaiah will look after mines and geology, personnel, intelligence wing, urban development, and science and technology.
The home portfolio has been allocated to KJ George, revenue to Srinivasa Prasad; public works, ports and inland transport to HC Mahadevappa; transport to Ramalinga Reddy; law and parliamentary affairs to TB Jayachandra; rural development and panchayat raj to HK Patil; higher education and tourism to RV Deshpande....
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04:08 AM, May 20, 2013
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday expanded his Cabinet with the induction of 28 Ministers. Twenty were made Cabinet Ministers and eight Ministers of State. They were administered oath of office by Governor HR Bhardwaj at a ceremony at Glass House at Raj Bhavan. Those made Cabinet ministers are RV Deshpande, Qamar-ul-Islam, Prakash B Hukkeri, Ramalinga Reddy, TB Jayachandra, B Ramanath Rai, HK Patil, Shamanur Shivashankarappa, V Srinivasa Prasad,...
11:24 AM, May 18, 2013
Bangalore: 29 MLAs will be inducted on Saturday into the newly elected Congress government in Karnataka at Raj Bhawan. Of the 121 Congress MLAs elected in May 5 Assembly elections, more than 50 are former ministers. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who took the oath on May 13 brought the Congress to power after seven-year hiatus in the state. 29 ministers will be sworn in at Raj Bhavan, the 64-year-old Chief Minister...
08:35 AM, May 18, 2013
Bangalore: Resurrecting the Congress rule in Karnataka after seven years, Siddaramaiah on Monday took over as Chief Minister, unveiling a Rs 4,409.81 crore bonanza for the poor, SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities in his maiden act. The 64-year-old backward class leader was sworn in by Governor HR Bhardwaj amid fanfare with thousands of his supporters in attendance at the ceremony held in the jam-packed Kanteerava Stadium, instead of the portals...
07:05 PM, May 13, 2013
In the latest twist in Karnataka government crisis, Governor HR Bhardwaj on Sunday denied having any information of 14 BJP MLAs resigning from the state government. ...
02:00 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Jagadish Shettar will meet Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Monday even as the Karnataka Chief Minister struggles to keep his government afloat with 14 MLAs threatening to resign. The Karnataka government is in danger of falling if the Assembly Speaker accepts their resignation. ...
09:01 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Jagadish Shettar will meet Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Saturday night even as the Karnataka Chief Minister struggles to keep his government afloat with 14 MLAs threatening to resign. The Karnataka government is in danger of falling if the Assembly Speaker accepts their resignation. ...
05:55 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj said on Saturday that the Jagadish Shettar ministry has majority but he will direct the chief minister to seek trust vote if need arises. ...
12:14 AM, Jan 27, 2013
In a U-turn, Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Saturday said that there was no threat to the state government and that he will not ask Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar for a vote of confidence. "I will not ask the Shettar government for a vote of confidence. Thirteen MLAs resigning does not pose a threat to the government," he said. ...
11:46 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Friday claimed that he had met Governor HR Bhardwaj and convinced him that he had the majority. "I met the Governor and invited him to address the joint session on February 4 and he has agreed. He asked me about the resignation of the MLAs. I have told him that my government has absolute majority." ...
03:12 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Friday said that he has summoned the Vidhan Sabha on February 4 and will ask Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar to prove majority in the House before conducting any transaction. "I have summoned the Assembly on February 4. If I feel that his government is in minority, the first thing I will do is to ask him to prove majority before conducting any business." ...
01:09 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Pontiffs of various mutts, saints and Jain gurus on Saturday took out a march to Raj Bhavan to press Governor HR Bhardwaj to give his assent to the anti-cow slaughter bill. The march, in which hundreds of women also participated, was led by Pejavar mutt seer Vishwesha Thirtha Swami. ...
05:30 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor H R Bhardwaj has suspended state Information Commissioner K Natarajan for allegedly intervening in the land-gift case involving CPM stalwart V S Achuthanandan. Action against Natarajan, a former DIG of police, was taken on the basis of the recommendation made by the state Government following a police probe which came across evidence to corroborate the charge that the Information Commissioner had urged a police official investigating the...
01:31 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj has returned an amendment Bill seeking to grant government land in rural areas to those who had unauthorisedly occupied it and built dwelling units prior to January 1 this year, saying it may lead to illegal grabbing. Bhardwaj returned the Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Bill, submitted by the BJP government for his assent, for reconsideration of both Houses of the state legislature. "The amendment Bill...
12:07 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Bangalore: Governor H R Bhardwaj on Thursday called upon the Gandhi Bhavan authorities to formulate a programme to disseminate message of Gandhian philosophy to younger generation. Speaking at a programme Quit India Movement-A Memory organised by Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi and Matrubhumi Shanti Prathisthana, he said, There is a need to launch a movement to revive Gandhis principle of unity. Youths are attracted toward Westernisation. Caste wars and linguistic problems...
01:28 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Bangalore: Launching an indirect attack on former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Tuesday said he had spent 'sleepless nights' in the first three years of BJP rule as scams and misuse of power surfaced but praised the incumbent Jagadish Shettar's rule. "I couldn't get sound sleep even for a day in first three years of BJP rule as issues scams and misuse of power rocked the...
10:59 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Hubli: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday took exception to Governor HR Bhardwaj's remarks that there are "tainted ministers" in his cabinet, saying no one can be held guilty until proved otherwise. "No one can be held guilty unless proved as such," he told reporters at the airport here. Bhardwaj had said on July 13 that some ministers with "tainted record" had been inducted into the ministry, ignoring his...
06:25 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Bangalore: A day after Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar assumed office, Governor H R Bhardwaj fired his first salvo at him by pointing at tainted ministers in his Cabinet. There are tainted ministers. There should have been an effort to clean up. While wrong persons have been inducted, the right ones are left out. This is not good for the state, he remarked. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a...
11:54 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Wednesday rejected Anna Hazare's demand for right to recall elected representatives, saying it was not feasible in a huge democratic country like India as it would create political instability. "There should not be the provision for right to recall. Can we do it in a huge country like India?," he said, without taking Hazare's name at Voters Day celebrations in Bangalore. Right to reject...
01:03 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Monday assumed additional charge of Kerala as his counterpart in Kerala MOH Farook is undergoing treatment in Chennai. Kerala High Court Acting Chief Justice Manjula Chellur administered the oath of office to Bhardwaj at a function held at Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Speaker G Karthikeyan and some of his cabinet colleagues and senior state government officials attended the function. Earlier...
08:41 AM, Jan 17, 2012
