The Bharatiya Janata Party led by Chief minister B S Yediurappa adds two more seats thereby increasing the tally in Karnataka with the bypoll victories. The next challenge to be handled by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa is silencing distress within the party. The Chief Minister is looking to use cabinet expansion and appointments to boards and corporations as means to quell any disgruntlement within the party over funds allocation, clamour for ministerial berths and disenchantment among cadres over neglect.

There are seven vacant berths in the 34 member cabinet which is Bengaluru and Belagavi heavy but more than a dozen districts has no representation. Of the 27 incumbent ministers, 11 are those who swittched to the BJP. Four others MTB Nagaraj, Muniratna, R Shankar and H Vishwanath are awaiting induction. A host of BJP old-timers like CP Yogeshwar, Sunil Kumar, S A Ramadas, Appachchu Ranjan, Umesh Katti, Murugesh Nirani, Arvind Limbavali, S Angara, etc are trying hard for ministerial berths.

44% of the cabinet will be occupied by the new comers if 4 new waiting are given the post. Maintaining the delicate balance will be the CM’s main challenge during the next cabinet expansion. The CM is intending to keep at least one cabinet berth vacant for Maski and Basavakalyan bypoll.

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