Amid resentment over portfolio allocation,Yediyurappa carries out second rejig within 24 hours
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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World No. 1 Chakravarthy achieves career-best rating in ICC T20I bowler rankings
Dubai (PTI): India spinner Varun Chakravarthy on Wednesday consolidated his position at the top of the ICC Men's T20I Bowler Rankings, reaching a career-best rating following a stellar show in the ongoing T20 series against South Africa.
The 34-year-old Chakravarthy earned a new best rating of 818 points on the back of his third consecutive two-wicket haul in five-game home series.
The right-armer has six wickets across the first three matches of the series, with his spell of 2/11 from four economical overs in the most recent contest in Dharamsala proving pivotal in India's clinical seven-wicket triumph.
Chakravarthy (818 rating points) now holds a 119-point advantage over his closest rival in New Zealand seamer Jacob Duffy (699) in second-place, while also moveing inside the top 10 for the best rating of all-time for T20I bowlers.
Left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh also improved four places to 16th overall on the rankings for T20I bowlers on the back of his Player of the Match heroics against the Proteas in the third game.
For South Africa, Marco Jansen (up 14 spots to 25th), Lungi Ngidi (up 11 rungs to 44th) and Ottneil Baartman also improved, reaching 68th from outside the top 100.
Among T20I batters, India now boast two players inside the top five on the rankings, with Tilak Varma gaining two spots to move to fourth overall after a trio of decent innings against South Africa.
Teammate Abhishek Sharma maintains a decent buffer at the top, while South Africa duo Aiden Markram (up eight places to 29th) and Quinton de Kock (up 14 spots to 43rd) made good ground following some decent recent efforts.
Pakistan's Saim Ayub has a narrow lead at the top of the rankings for T20I all-rounders despite not playing any international matches across the last week, with India's Shivam Dube the big mover on this list as he improves two places to 16th.
