Karnataka Cabinet Expansion: Elections are to be held in the state next year. (file)
Bangalore:
Amid demands for cabinet expansion ahead of next year’s Karnataka Assembly polls, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said a meeting will be held in New Delhi on the matter in which the party high command will take a decision.
Speaking to reporters, Mr Bommai said, “BJP President JP Nadda has said that there will be a meeting in Delhi. The party high command will decide on cabinet expansion or reshuffle.”
Earlier on Sunday, during his two-day visit to the state, Mr. Nadda held a meeting with the state core committee of the party in the presence of the Chief Minister and discussed organizational issues.
Recently, Mr Bommai, during his two-day visit to the national capital, met the party’s high command, including national president and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. During the meeting, the cabinet expansion of the eight-month-old government was said to be the top agenda.
On his return from New Delhi, the Chief Minister had termed his visit as ‘successful’.
Notably, Mr Bommai, who also belongs to the politically influential Lingayat community, was sworn in as chief minister on July 28 last year after his predecessor BS Yediyurappa stepped down.
Elections are due next year in Karnataka, for which Mr Bommai sounded the bugle at the Vijayanagara convention on Sunday.
“We will seek a positive mandate from farmers, women and weaker sections to implement our good governance, law and order and nationalist agenda. We will go to the people with our performance report cards,” Bommai said.
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