Bangalore: CM Bookanakere Yeddyurappa has asked Fisheries Minister from kanara Dt, Anand Asnotiker and Library Minister Shivanagowda Naik to put in their papers, in a re-shuffle of his cabinet. He is expected to bring in V. Somanna and Ms Shobha Karandlaje again, along with 4 new faces, C.T. Ravi (Chikkamagaluru), Vijayashanker (Mysore), Narayana Swamy (Bangalore City) and Appu Pattanashetty (Bijapur) into the reformed cabinet.
BJP senior leaders and state core committee have agreed to the changes in state cabinet, which will lead to a new cabinet swear in by Sept. 21, it is learnt.
A. Asnotikar was with CM in Raichur during the CM’s visit to power plant there on Friday. There is no way he (Fisheries Minister) could refuse the exit gate –pass. Ramachandre Gowda also may go out in view of controversy surrounding him of late in medical. Several Ministers may lose existing port folios, education dependable sources said.