Mallikarjun Kharge
New Delhi: Ahead of the much-awaited Karnataka Cabinet expansion to be held later in the day, the Congress high command cleared the ministers’ list on Monday, August 3.
According to the list, the Congress high command has cleared 20 names. The leaders who made the cut are: PM Narendraswamy, Lakshman Savadi, Shivaraj Thangadagi, Rudrappa Lamani, KS Basavanthappa, B Nagendra, Raghumoorthy, Zameer Ahmed Khan, Rizwan Arshad, Santhosh Lad, Madhu Bangarappa, Puttrangashetty, Mankal Vaidya, and Ajay Singh.
The other leaders on the list are Chaluvaraya Swamy, Shivalinge Gowda, HC Balakrishna, Basavraj Rayareddi, Gayathri Shanthegowda, and Vijayanand Kashnappanavar.
Last week in Delhi, CM DK Shivakumar and KPCC chief BK Hariprasad had discussed the expansion issue with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC general secretaries KC Venugopal and Randeep Singh Surjewala.
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