Further Karnataka cabinet expansion not now: BJP

Bengaluru: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not in a hurry to again expand the Karnataka cabinet now as it is in the midst of providing relief to the flood-hit people in two-thirds of the state besides stepping up governance, a party official said on Saturday. “There are no plans to expand the cabinet again in the immediate future though there are 16 vacancies in the 34-member ministry, as the government is busy with flood relief works and in implementing the budgetary schemes,” party’s state unit spokesman G. Madhusudana told. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa had expanded his cabinet on August 20, inducting 17 ministers, including three Deputy Chief Ministers, and had allocated portfolios on August 26, a month after he assumed office on July 26 for the fourth time in 12 years. (IANS)

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