Cabinet expansion in June first week?
Bengaluru, May 30: Due to tug of war between the two coalition partners- JDS and Congress over sharing the portfolio even after one week of forming the government, the cabinet expansion process has been postponed to June first week.
Both CM HD Kumaraswamy and DCM Dr G Parameshwar have been saying that the cabinet would be expanded shortly. But as the number of aspirants for the ministerial berths is more, both the parties have not yet come to a conclusion.
Meanwhile, in view of the AICC president Rahul Gandhi’s foreign tour, the expansion was also delayed. Even then, it is said that the cabinet would be expanded on June 2. But, the names to be inducted into the cabinet are not yet finalized. Both the parties have prepared their own lists and expansion circus would happen either on June 4 or June 6, it is said.
In Congress, there is a big list of aspirants like HK Patil, Ramalinga Reddy, KJ George, UT Khader, Roshan Baig, RV Deshpande, DK Shivakumar, Shamanur Shivashankarappa, Priyank Kharge, Satish Jarkiholi, E Tukaram and others. However in the JDS, Bandeppa Kashempur, GT Deve Gowda, HK Kumaraswamy, HD Revanna, Venkataram Nada Gouda, H Vishwanath, CS Puttaraju and others could get the chance.
“The JDS-Congress coalition government’s cabinet would be expanded in a couple of days. The government would take Karnataka state as one of the model state in the country in terms of development”, said CH H D Kumaraswamy.
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We need to recognise we have problem with Security Council: UN SG Guterres
United Nations (PTI): In a sharp critique, UN chief Antonio Guterres said there is a need to recognise “we have a problem with the Security Council”, which does not reflect the current world and is not allowed to stop conflicts because of the use of veto by its permanent members.
“I think we need to recognise that we have a problem with the Security Council. The Security Council today no longer represents the world as the world exists. It represents the world after 1945,” Guterres said at a press conference in Beirut on Saturday in response to a question.
He pointed out that three permanent members of the 15-nation Council are from Europe, one from Asia, and one is the United States, while there are no permanent members from Africa or Latin America.
Even from Asia, that “obviously is a continent with an enormous weight in global population and global wealth”, there is just one permanent member - China.
“And so, the Council has a problem of legitimacy and a problem of efficiency because of the vetoes. And what we have witnessed is that time and time again, when we have situations of conflict and when it's necessary to stop the conflict, there is a veto that emerges, and that does not allow the Security Council to act. That, unfortunately, is something that we are witnessing time and time again, and I am not hoping that in the short term, things will change,” he said.
The Council is made up of five veto-wielding permanent members, China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, while 10 non-permanent members are elected to serve two-year terms at the horseshoe table and do not have veto powers.
India has been at the forefront of decades-long efforts calling for reform of the Security Council, including expansion in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, saying the 15-nation Council, founded in 1945, is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century and does not reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.
India has underscored that it rightly deserves to sit as a permanent member in the Security Council.
India last sat at the UN high table as a non-permanent member in 2021-22. A polarised Security Council has failed to deal with current peace and security challenges, with Council members sharply divided on conflicts such as the Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the latest US-Israel war against Iran.
