CM Yediyurappa forced to reassign portfolios in 24 Hours

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has been forced to change portfolios of some ministers in 24 hours. Some ministers had complained soon after their departments were announced  on Thursday. J.C. Madhuswamy has been assigned the Haj and Wakf department instead of Kannada and Culture. Aravind Limbavali, who was given the forest department, will also be in charge of Kannada and Culture. MTB Nagaraja, who had been unhappy about the Excise department, has now been allocated the Municipal Administration Department and the Sugarcane Development and Directorate of Sugar. The Excise department goes to K. Gopalaiah, who had earlier been named for Horticulture and Sugarcane Development.

R. Shankar has been given Horticulture instead of the Municipal Administration Department. K.C. Narayana Gowda will be in charge of Planning Programme Monitoring and Statistics Department. A day before , Nagaraja, Gopalaiah, Madhuswamy and Narayana Gowda had been openly upset about their new ministries. Except for Madhuswamy, most of the new ministers defected from rival parties and expected to be rewarded for their role in facilitating Yediyurappa's return to power in 2019. "It was a political suicidal attempt to resign from a party and join BJP," said K Sudhakar, who crossed over from the Congress. After the latest changes, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said: "Everybody has spoken to the Chief Minister - and the Chief Minister has spoken to them. They are all happy, they are all contented. The issue is resolved."