Bengaluru : As many as 29 ministers inducted into the new council of ministers in Karnataka on Wednesday as CM Bommai expanded his Cabinet on Wednesday, exactly a week since he took over the reins from Yediyurappa. In short, 23 ministers are old faces who were part of the previous B S Yediyurappa cabinet, six are new.

The  29 new members, decided that all ministers will immediately visit districts assigned to them and review the flood and Covid-19 situation there.

Govind Karjol (Belagavi), K S Eshwarappa (Shivamogga), R Ashoka (Bengaluru Urban), B Sriramulu (Chitradurga), V Somanna (Raichur), Umesh Katti (Bagalkote), S Angara (Dakshina Kannada), J C Madhuswamy (Tumakuru), Araga Jnanendra (Chikkamagaluru); C N Ashwath Narayan (Ramanagara), C C Patil (Gadag), Anand Singh (Ballari and Vijayanagara), Kota Srinivas Poojary (Kodagu), Prabhu Chauhan (Bidar), Murugesh Nirani (Kalaburagi).

Shivaram Hebbar (Uttara Kannada), S T Somashekar (Mysuru and Chamarajanagara), B C Patil (Haveri), Byrathi Basavaraj (Davangere), K Sudhakar (Chikkaballapura), K Gopalaiah (Hassan); Shashikala Jolle (Vijayapura), M T B Nagaraj (Bengaluru Rural), K C Narayan Gowda (Mandya), B C Nagesh (Yadgir), V Sunil Kumar (Udupi), Halappa Achar (Koppal), Shankar Patil Munenkoppa (Dharwad) and Munirathna (Kolar).

Chief ministers said that the new ministers portfolio will be sharing in two days.