JAGADISH SHETTAR SWORAN IN KARNATAKA CHIEF
MINISTER
Fifty-six
year-old Lingayat leader from north Karnataka, Jagadish Shettar, was sworn-in
as chief minister on Thursday,12th July,2012, along with a
full-fledged team of 33 ministers. This included two deputy chief ministers –
Party State President K. S. Eshwarappa and former Home Minister R. Ashok.Mr.
Shettar is the third chief minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party that came to
power in 2008. He will have a short tenure of only about 10 months as the State
Assembly’s term ends in May 2013.While all the 21 ministers who were part of
the previous dispensation have been continued in the new government, 12 new
ministers have also been included. With this, the ministry has reached the
maximum size of 34 members including the chief minister that has been allowed
for Karnataka considering the numerical strength of its Assembly. This is the
first time since the formation of the BJP government that all the ministerial
berths have been filled up.Also, this is the first time that the state is
having two deputy chief ministers though five other previous governments had
single deputy chief ministers.
The
members of the Shettar ministry are: K. S. Eshwarappa and R. Ashok (Deputy
Chief Ministers), Govind Karjol, Umesh Katti, C. M. Udasi, Suresh Kumar,
Visveshwara Hegde Kageri, Shobha Karandlaje, Murugesh Nirani, B. N. Bachche
Gowda, C. P. Yogeshwar, V. Somanna, M. P. Renukacharya, S. A. Ravindranath, S.
A. Ramdas, Balachandra Jharkiholi, Anand Asnotikar, A. Narayanaswamy, Revunayak
Belamagi, Varthur Prakash, Raju Gowda (who were part of the earlier
dispensation); S. K. Bellubbi, C. T. Ravi, D. N. Jeevaraj, Sogadhu Shivanna,
Arvind Limbavali, B. J. Puttaswamy, Appachchu Ranjan, Anand Singh, Kalakappa
Bandi, Kota Srinivas Poojary and Sunil Valyapure.As the two rival camps in the
BJP indulged in hard-bargaining for ministerial berths as well as portfolios,
the party state leaders had been summoned by the Central leaders to Delhi where
the ministerial list was finalised by Wednesday midnight. Even then the names
of two ministers were included in the last minute.
The
BJP state top leaders including Mr. Shettar, Mr. Eshwarappa and Mr. Ananth
Kumar returned to Bangalore from Delhi only on Thursday morning.The swearing-in
ceremony was held at the Glass House in Raj Bhavan. As the supporters of the
new chief minister and ministers started pouring into the Raj Bavan to watch
their leaders take oath, the police had to close the Raj Bhavan gate 15 minutes
before the commencement of the programme itself to prevent overcrowding.The
swearing-in ceremony was attended by Mr. D. V. Sadananda Gowda, who quit the
chief ministerial post to make way for Mr. Shettar, and his predecessor B. S.
Yeddyurappa among others. Mr. Ananth Kumar and Party national co-organising
general secretary V. Satish were the only central leaders who attended the
swearing-in ceremony.
Prof.
John Kurakar
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