{"id":298452,"date":"2018-06-06T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298452"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:37:45","slug":"karnataka-cabinet-expansion-hd-kumaraswamy-inducts-25-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-cabinet-expansion-hd-kumaraswamy-inducts-25-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Cabinet Expansion: HD Kumaraswamy Inducts 25 ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-298453 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/karna-cabinet-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday expanded his cabinet with the induction of 25 new ministers in the Karnataka Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to Fourteen ministers of Congress, nine of JD(S) and one each of the BSP and the KPJP at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">DK Shivakumar, GT Deve Gowda, KJ George and HD Revanna elder brother of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy were among those who took oath as cabinet ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under the power sharing agreement, Congress will have 22 ministers and the JD(S) 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With today\u2019s expansion, the strength of the cabinet has gone up to 27, leaving seven more vacancies to be filled.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday expanded his cabinet with the induction of 25 new ministers in the Karnataka Government. Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to Fourteen ministers of Congress, nine of JD(S) and one each of the BSP and the KPJP at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan. DK Shivakumar, GT Deve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,36,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[947,1380,236,2078,1569,2079,1552,2080,1472,1430,2081,2082,2083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299682,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298452\/revisions\/299682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}