Days after Karnataka’s new Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was sworn in, 29 BJP MLAs took oath as ministers in the new Cabinet on Wednesday, August 4. The MLAs took their oath at the glass house in the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru on Wednesday afternoon. Bommai, who was elected the new leader of the BJP legislature party last week following Yediyurappa's resignation, had taken oath as Chief Minister on July 28.
The ministers are as follows:
Sunil Kumar
Govind Karjol
KS Eshwarappa
R Ashok
Dr CN Ashwath Narayana
B Sriramulu
Halappa Achar
Shankar Patil Munanakoppa
Umesh Katti
Murugesh Nirani
Araga Jnanendra
Madhuswamy
BC Patil
ST Somashekhar
Dr K Sudhakar
Anand Singh
Byrathi Basavaraja
Gopalaiah
Shivaram Hebbar
KC Narayana Gowda
Muniratna
MTB Nagaraj
S Angara
Kota Srinivas Poojary
Prabhu Chauhan
V Somanna
Shashikala Jolle
CC Patil
BC Nagesh
Among the ministers in the new Cabinet are eight Lingayats, seven Vokkaligas, seven OBCs, three SCs, two Brahmins, one ST and one Reddy, and a woman. Keeping up the "promise", Bommai has inducted 10 legislators who had joined BJP after quitting Congress-JD(S) coalition in 2019, and helped the saffron party to come to power. These ministers are BC Patil, ST Somashekhar, Dr K Sudhakar, Anand Singh, Byrathi Basavaraj, Gopalaiah, Shivaram Hebbar, KC Narayana Gowda, Muniratna and MTB Nagaraj.
Eleven of them were ministers in the Yediyurappa government, while two others, Shrimant Patil and R Shankar have not made it to the Bommai Cabinet. Munirathna has been newly inducted. Former Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi was among the names that did not figure in the list of new ministers. Others who did not find a place in the Cabinet were Jagadish Shettar, Arvind Limbavali, Suresh Kumar, CP Yogeshwar and Srimanth Patil.
Earlier on Wednesday, Bommai said there will be no Deputy Chief Ministers in his Cabinet as per the high command's directions. Also, Yediyurappa's younger son and state BJP Vice-President BY Vijayendra is not among the ministers who will be sworn-in.