Bengaluru : Newly-elected BJP MLAs will have to wait longer as the expansion of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s Cabinet is now expected to happen only after the Jharkhand polls. Due to hectic politicking during the five-phased polling in the northern state, the chief minister is expected to meet the party’s central leadership only after […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to reshuffle his council of ministers on Tuesday, a government official announced on Monday. “Cabinet expansion tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11 a.m.,” Principal spokesperson and Director General of Press Information Bureau, Frank Noronha said in a tweet. There were speculations of a cabinet reshuffle since the Prime […]

New Delhi : In perhaps the last reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers, Mallikarjun Kharge was today made the Railways Minister as eight more were inducted with veterans Sis Ram Ola and Oscar Fernandes making a comeback. After yesterday’s reshuffle in the party, senior woman leader from election-bound Rajasthan Girija Vyas and […]

Bangalore: Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda has informed that there would be an expansion of the state cabinet in a week’s time. A cabinet expansion is expected to give some relief to the chief minister who is overburdened with the responsibility of as many as 21 portfolios. However, the chances of him being able to […]

Mangalore : Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda speaking at the press meet after inaugurating the New Hall of Mangalore Press Club on Feb 12, Sunday said that he will be attending the Rani Abbakka Utsav, Post Centenary Celebration of Mangalore Diocese, inaugural ceremony of ITI at Odiyoor and other programme and will be back to […]

Bangalore: A BJP legislature party meeting held at 2PM on Wednesday(December 21) formulated the strategy and issued a whip to all MLAs to support the Candidature of CM DVS Gowda in a by-poll next day. Another meeting was held at  5PM  to discuss other important issues such as Lokayukta and Cabinet expansion. The 5 Independent […]

Bangalore : Differences within the state BJP came in the open on Tuesday when Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda and state BJP president K S Eshwarappa made contradictory statements over the Cabinet expansion. While Eshwarappa said in an affirmative tone that the Cabinet expansion will happen in the first week of November, Gowda refuted […]

Gadag : even though there is no over whelming reason why the present cabinet of 26 ministers should be expanded again to take in controversial and non-working MLAs as ministers, the theme is recurring in public meetings and press club gatherings, as if all state development depended on Cabinet expansion to the brim, to fill […]

Mangalore : Chief Minister B. S. Yedyurappa said that cabinet expansion decision will be taken at the end of the assembly session. He was speaking to the reporters at Mangalore Airport, who has been visited by the special flight to attend the 60th birthday celebrations of V. Dhananjay Kumar, the former union minister at Shri […]

Bangalore: Not that any extraordinary kind of highly capable Minister is about to join but cannot for various political reasons beyond the control of ruling BJP when there are seven vacancies and several districts remain unrepresented now, but CM Yeddyurappa  has stated on Wednesday that the cabinet expansion can wait. He was talking in a […]