[1]With no solution in sight to the tussle over portfolios, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar rushed to New Delhi on Saturday to seek the help of senior central leaders of the party on allotment of departments to his cabinet colleagues.
Mr Shettar was left with no choice, but to request leaders in Delhi to step in as ministers continued to squabble over plum portfolios during several meetings of the core committee.
He was accompanied by one of the deputy chief ministers, R. Ashok, who reportedly refused to part with the portfolio of home which he held along with transport in the previous government.
His stand prompted the other deputy chief minister and state party unit president K.S. Eshwarappa to demand that he head key departments of urban development and revenue, sources in the party told Deccan Chronicle.
The sources said that to add to Mr Shettar’s woes, ministers who served in the previous cabinet headed by D.V. Sadananda Gowda were lobbying to ensure that they were not given insignificant ministries.
Some of them were seeking an assurance that they would be allowed to hold on to their previous ministers.
A few others, including B.N. Bachche Gowda and Varthur Prakash, even tried to get Sadananda Gowda to put in a word on their behalf. Mr Shettar, however, was non-committal and told them that he would return with a solution from Delhi.
Extend probe against BSY: Hiremath to CBI
Apart from the Rachenahalli denotification and JSW bribe to Prerana Educational Trust, run by former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s family, the CBI should also extend the probe to other cases of illegalities and corruption in alleged illegal mining related cases, stated S.R. Hiremath, convener of NGO Samaj Parivartan Samudaya, in a letter to the CBI chief investigating officer, Bengaluru branch.
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