Bengaluru: 24 Congress MLAs took oath as ministers on Saturday to join the cabinet led by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
24 ministers include HK Patil, Krishna Byregowda, N Cheluvarayaswamy, K Venkatesh, HC Mahadevappa, Eshwar Khandre, Kyathasandra N Rajanna, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Sharanabasappa Darshanapur, Shivanand Patil, Timmapur Ramappa Balappa, SS Mallikarjun, Tangadagi Shivaraj Sangappa, Sharanaprakash Rudrappa Patil, Mankal Vaidya, Laxmi R Hebbalkar, Rahim Khan, D Sudhakar, Santosh S Lad, NS Boseraju, Suresha BS, Madhu Bangarappa, MC Sudhakar, B Nagendra.
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The list released by the Congress includes six Lingayat representatives and four Vokkaliga representatives.
Among the MLAs, three belong to Scheduled Castes, two belong to Scheduled Tribes, and five come from Other Backward Communities, namely Kuruba, Raju, Maratha, Ediga, and Mogaveera.
In the appointment of Dinesh Gundu Rao, the Brahmin community is also represented in the cabinet. The cabinet composition consists of seven ministers each from the Old Mysuru and Kalyana Karnataka regions, six from the Kittur Karnataka region, and two from the central Karnataka region.
Congress bagged 135 seats in 224-member Karnataka Assembly ousting the BJP which got 66 seats from the only southern state it had.
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