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Bangalore: The Janata Dal (Secular) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are considering a joint swearing-in of their nominees on November 21 to expand the B.S.Yeddyurappa Ministry to its optimum size of 34. While the Janata Dal (S) has confirmed that it will fill up its full quota of 18 berths in the Ministry, including that of the Deputy Chief Minister, the BJP will undertake a similar exercise after obtaining approval of the party high command. The Cabinet expansion exercise hinges on the power-sharing arrangement and will be held two days after the Government obtains the confidence vote on the floor of the Legislative Assembly. Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa has left for New Delhi to call on party president Rajnath Singh and the party observer for Karnataka, Yashwant Sinha, and finalise the party’s power-sharing arrangement with the Janata Dal (S), apart from finalising the list of Ministers to be sworn in. He will also call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Pratibha Patil and several Union Ministers, including Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil. The inclusion of five legislators of the Janata Dal (S) and five of the BJP in the Ministry has been confirmed by the leadership of the two parties. H.D. Revanna is likely to be given Public Works and Energy portfolios (which he held in the previous two governments as well), N. Cheluvarayaswamy is likely to be given Irrigation and C. Chennigappa may get the Industries portfolio. Balachandra Jarkiholi and Iqbal Ansari are likely to become Ministers. Both Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy and Mr. Chennigappa reportedly wanted “weighty” portfolios. Legislators of both parties have been exerting considerable pressure on their leaders for ministerial berths.
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