Bengaluru:Karnataka Chief Minister-DesignateDK Shivakumarwill take oath at Lok Bhavan in Bengaluru on June 3 at 4 PM. Several senior leaders are likely to be inducted into the Karnataka Cabinet 2.0 alongside Shivakumar. Sources told Times Now that the Karnataka Home Minister will be the Deputy CM.
Parameshwara will be the only deputy CM in the Karnataka government, the sources added. He had also served as Karnataka Congress president and is the influential Dalit face in the state. A total of 14 ministers will take oath along with Shivakumar. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will be present at the sewaring0in ceremony on Wednesday.
The new Karnataka cabinet will include two leaders from the Vokkaliga community, including Shivakumar. Two ministers will be from minority communities, and two will be from the Dalit community., including Parameshwara, The probable list also includes KJ George,, Ramalinga Reddy, and KB Gowda. There will also be two ministers from the Lingayat community.
Here Is The Likely List Of MLAs Who Are Likely To Be Part Of TheShivakumar Cabinet:
On Tuesday, discussions were held by top Congress leadership, including Mallikarjun Kharge and Gandhi with Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar on leaders to be inducted in the new cabinet. Notably, the second cabinet expansion is likely to happen on June 20 after the Rajya Sabha and MLC polls.
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Speaking at Kalaburagi Airport, Kharge had said earlier, "We have to see; no proposal has come yet. Once it does, we'll decide how many ministers and deputy chief ministers to appoint. We'll know more after June 3."
Last week, Shivakumar was unanimously chosen as the new leader of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP), marking the end of the leadership tussle in Karnataka. Shivakumar's name was proposed by none other than outgoing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah; it was seconded by Parameshwara, after which the CLP passed it unanimously.
Soon after being elected as the CLP leader, Shivakumar, along with Siddaramaiah and other senior Karnataka Congress leaders, met Governor Thawarchand Gehlot to stake their claim to form the next government.
Notably, the leadership tussle between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar first surfaced back in 2023 when the Congress party had won the 2023 Assembly elections but faced challenges to decide whom they should hand over the power -- Siddaramaiah or DK Shivakumar.
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