It’s a game of musical chairs as Karnataka CM effects two Cabinet reshuffles in a day

The allocation of Cabinet portfolios is popping out to be a game of musical chairs, with Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday effecting a reshuffle of portfolios for the fourth time in 4 days — and for the second on the identical day — to quell dissatisfaction amongst a part of Ministers.

But this did not resolve the issue utterly as a contemporary spherical of dissatisfaction emerged amongst a few Ministers.

The spotlight of Monday’s reshuffle was Health and Family Welfare Minister K. Sudhakar getting again the Medical Education portfolio, which had been taken away from him in the primary spherical of reshuffle. With this, each the Health and Medical Education portfolios proceed to be monitored by a frequent authority.

Mr. Sudhakar had personally pleaded with the Chief Minister to permit him to maintain each portfolios for higher coordination of COVID-19 measures and to help the vaccination drive.

But this meant the Medical Education Department was taken away from J.C. Madhuswamy, who was already upset over being stripped of the Minor Irrigation and Law portfolios. Though he was given Tourism and Ecology and Environment in part one of the reshuffle early on Monday, he was stated to be very upset over being “ignored” although he performed a essential function in defending the federal government in the legislature classes.

In truth, supporters of Mr. Madhuswamy even threatened that he might not want to proceed in the Cabinet if he continued to be “ignored”. Following these developments, the Chief Minister, later in the day, effected yet one more spherical of reshuffle in which the portfolios of newly inducted Minister C.P. Yogeshwar and Mr. Madhuswamy had been swapped. Now, Mr. Madhuswamy has once more been given Minor Irrigation whereas Mr. Yogeshwar must be content material with Tourism and Environment and Ecology.

Singh sad

In a cascading impact, this has made B.S. Anand Singh, who earlier held the Tourism and Ecology portfolios, sad. To placate Mr. Singh, the Chief Minister has given him Infrastructure Development and Haj and Wakf. But that doesn’t seem to have had any affect as Mr. Singh is alleged to be damage.

The method in which the portfolios have been modified forwards and backwards in a quick span of time is being seen as a sign of Mr. Yediyurappa shedding his grip on the Cabinet. “Perhaps this is the first time the Chief Minister has effected a reshuffle so many times within a short span,” a senior BJP chief noticed. Mr. Yediyurappa’s supporters, nonetheless, have maintained that it is a sign of the veteran chief’s “accommodative” angle in a difficult political ambiance.