Bengaluru: A day after allocation of portfolios, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday carried out another rejig, reflecting the fissures in his 17-month-old government over the exercise.
According to the notification issued by the government with the consent of Governor Vajubhai Vala on Friday,Medical Education Minister J C Madhuswamy has been relieved of Kannada and Culture and given additional charge of Hajj and Wakf, which was given to K C Narayana Gowda on Thursday. Aravind Limbavali will now handle the Kannada and Culture Department besides the Forest portfolio.
According to the notification, MLC N Nagaraja (M T B Nagaraj), who was yesterday given Excise, was divested of the portfolio and given municipal administration, sugarcane development from the industries and commerce department.
The Chief Minister allotted the Excise portfolio to K Gopalaiah.The horticulture department he was allocated on Thursday, has been given to MLC R Shankar who was divested of municipal administration.
Yediyurappa divested one of his portfolios of planning, programme monitoring and statistics department to K C Narayana Gowda who is also holding the portfolio of Youth Empowerment and Sports. Despite another rejig within 24 hours, resentment continued.
Sources close to Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said he was upset over the Medical Education portfolio being taken away from him.
Speaking to reporters, Sudhakar said he would discuss with the Chief Minister regarding the reshuffle.
"Earlier it was difficult to manage the pandemic because Health and Medical Education departments were handled by two different ministers.COVID-19 was brought under control after merging both Health and Medical Education departments," the minister said.
He said the cabinet reshuffle should have been done keeping in view the vaccination drive.
BJP sources claimed that Madhuswamy continued to remain upset with the reshuffle after being relieved of Law and Parliamentary Affairs, which was a major portfolio for him.
A week after expanding his cabinet, Yediyurappa on Thursday allocated portfolios to seven new ministers and also reshuffled the departments of some others.
The exercise, however, did not go down well with a section of his ministerial colleagues as they were reportedly upset over the departments allocated to them and some did not attend the cabinet meeting held after the reshuffle.
Yediyurappa, however, sought to brush off the resentment, saying some kind of displeasure was anticipated.
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Jaipur, Mar 28: Young Riyan Parag showed why he is considered a precocious talent as he struck a stunning 84 not out off 45 balls to set up a 12-run win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals in their IPL match here on Thursday.
Sent in to bat, RR were reduced to 36 for 3 in the eighth over but the 22-year-old Parag single-handedly took the home side to 185 for 5 with a magnificent unbeaten knock studded with seven fours and six sixes.
Parag, who was promoted to number 4 by the team management this season and made 43 in the previous match, took 25 runs off veteran South African pacer Anrich Nortje with scores of 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 1 in the final over to hit his highest T20 score.
Chasing 186 for a win, DC could only manage 173 for 5 in 20 overs though South African youngster Tristan Stubbs (44 not out off 23 balls) kept them in the hunt till the final over from which they needed 17 runs.
Avesh Khan conceded just four runs to help RR win their second consecutive match.
South African pacer Nandre Burger and Yuzvendra Chahal took two wickets apiece to also contribute in the RR win.
"Definitely disappointed. The best thing to do from here is to learn from it. The bowlers did well through the 15-16 overs. But the batters did well at the death, hopefully we do better in the next game," DC skipper Rishabh Pant said.
DC were reduced to 34 for 2 in the fourth over with Burger taking two wickets in three balls in a fine display of fast bowling.
Burger, who was brought in as Impact Sub for Shimron Hetmyer, dismissed opener Mitchell Marsh (23 off 12 balls) and Ricky Bhui (0) in the fourth over.
DC captain Rishabh Pant came out to bat at the fall of Bhui's wicket and along with senior batter David Warner built the innings without taking too much risk. Delhi were 89 for 2 at the halfway stage.
Warner was the more aggressive one as he got the boundaries to keep DC in the hunt. The senior Australian batter fell one run short of his fifty courtesy a brilliant diving catch by Sandeep Sharma off the bowling of Avesh in the 12th over.
Warner and Pant were involved in a crucial 67-run partnership for the third wicket.
Playing in his 100th IPL match and 14 months after a horrible car crash, Pant tried to build the innings with occasional boundaries. But he got out for a 26-ball 28 as Chahal induced a faint lower edge for Sanju Samson to do the rest behind the stumps in the 14th over.
The asking rate shot up to more than 13 runs an over and DC needed 66 from the last five overs.
Stubbs kept DC in the game with two consecutive sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin in the 17th over, but in the end the Delhi side were short by 12 runs.
They needed 34 runs from the final two overs which they could not get. It was DC's second consecutive loss.
Earlier, Parag shared 54 and 52 runs respectively with Ravichandran Ashwin (29) and Dhruv Jurel (20) after RR made a shaky start.
Royals captain Samson struck three consecutive boundaries in the fourth over bowled by pacer Mukesh Kumar before nicking a Khaleel Ahmed delivery two overs later to Pant to get out for 15.
RR were 30 for 2 by then as Mukesh had given DC their first breakthrough with the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal (5).
The Royals were in more trouble after wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav literally forced his captain Pant to take a review, which later proved to be successful, to dismiss Englishman Jos Buttler for an LBW decision.
Ashwin came out to bat at number five and he lofted a Kuldeep delivery for a six to help RR reach 58 for 3 at halfway stage. He gave Nortje even a harsher treatment with two sixes in the next over that yielded 15 runs.
Ashwin, however, holed out to Tristan Stubbs near the boundary ropes for a 19-ball 29.
Parag then made his presence felt, striking two boundaries and a six off Ahmed to take RR past 100 in the 15th over.