Key Points
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is expected to expand his ministry on the weekend with about 20 additional ministers as he has been under pressure to end the delay over assignment of portfolios to ministers...
Siddaramaiah and deputy CM Shivakumar are dealing with heightened pressure from their loyalists for a berth in the cabinet..
The party has won 135 seats in the May 10 assembly polls, and there are several seniors who have also been former ministers...
On Wednesday, former CM Basavaraj Bommai too sought a response from Siddaramaiah on the delay for assigning portfolios to new ministers...
The Congress regime is defending the delay citing the precedent set by the BJP leader BS Yediyurappa who worked as a one-member Cabinet for more than three weeks in July 2019 when the BJP formed the government after the collapse of the JDS-Congress coalition regime...
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