The background of new ministers – Brief note
Bengaluru: 25 new ministers from Congress and JDS, who took the oath on Wednesday, have been inducted in the cabinet of the Congress-JDS coalition.
At a simple ceremony held at Rajbhavan's glass house on Wednesday at 2:12 pm, Governor Vajubhai Vala observed the oath of the new ministers.
Here is the brief information about the ministers who took the oath today.
HD Ravanna
HD Revanna, the second son of the former prime minister and JDS chief HD Deve Gowda, has been elected from Hollenarasipura Assembly constituency for the fourth time. He has served as Minister of Fertilizer and Public Works, and also the president of Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF).
CS Putharaju
CS Puttaraju is representing the Melukote assembly constituency in Mandya district, and earlier served as MP. He has also served as MLA from Pandawapur constituency but for the first time becoming a minister.
SR Mahesh
S Ramesh, who has been elected as an MLA for the third time from KR Nagar constituency in Mysore district, has sworn in as a minister for the first time in Chief Minister Kumaraswamy's cabinet.
GT Deve Gowda
Mysore district's Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency's representative has previously worked as a minister. He also served as the Chairman of the Karnataka House Board in 2007. Deve Gowda has defeated Siddaramaiah, and he is the senior legislator.
Bandeppa Kashmipur
Bhedappa Kashmepur, a legislator from Bidar district south constituency, had previously served as Agriculture Minister during the Congress-JDS coalition government and lost the 2013 election. This time he is a minister again, and he has vast experience.
Venkatrao Nadagowda
Venkatrao Nadagowda, representing the Sindhnur assembly constituency in Raichur district has been elected as MLA twice but got the ministership for the first time in the Congress-JDS coalition government.
SR Srinivas (Vasu)
SR Srinivas, who represents the Gubbi assembly constituency in Tumkur district, is the senior legislator and becoming minister for the first minister. He made headlines by releasing a CD related to ‘operation Kamala' during the BJP government.
D.C.Thammanna
D.C. Thammanna is representing the Maddur assembly constituency in Mandya district. Thammanna is a senior legislator and becoming the minister for the first time.
MC Managoli
MC Managuli, who represents the Sindhagi assembly constituency in Vijayapur district, has been sworn in as the first minister.
- Mahesh
- Mahesh, the first time MLA from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from Kollegal constituency in Chamarajanagar district, has taken oath as a minister for the first time.
DK Shivakumar
DKS has been elected legislator from Satnur and Kanakapura constituency in Ramanagara district from 1989 to 2018 for seven times. Shivakumar was a minister in the governments of SM Krishna and Siddaramaiah. He now takes the oath as minister for the third time.
RV Deshpande:
RV Deshpande, who has been elected for the eighth time as MLA from Haliyal Assembly constituency in Uttara Kannada district, was Minister of Industry from 1994 to 2004. He was in Janata Parivar till 1999 and later joined the Congress. Deshpande served as Minister of various departments in the Siddaramaiah Government.
Krishna Byre Gowda:
Krishna Byre Gowda, who has been elected as MLA for the third consecutive term from 2008 to 2018 from Bengaluru's Byatarayanpura constituency, has served as Minister in Siddaramaiah government and now sworn in as minister for the second time.
Rajasekhar Patil:
Raj Shekhar Patil, who has been elected as a legislator for the third consecutive time from Bidar's Humnabad constituency, sworn-in as the minister for the first time.
Shankar:
- Shankar, who has been elected MLA as an independent candidate from the Ranebennur constituency in Haveri district for the first time, has served as the Deputy Mayor of the Bangalore City Corporation earlier. He is now sworn in as a minister.
BZ Zameer Ahmad Khan:
Zamir Ahmed Khan, who was elected for the first time in 2005 in the Chamarajpet constituency's by-polls, has since then won consecutively till 2018, and he is now four-time MLA. For the first time, he had become a minister in the JDS-BJP coalition government in 2006, and now he took oath as minister for the second time.
Ramesh Jarakihili:
Ramesh Jarkiholi, who has been elected legislator for the fourth time from the Gokak assembly constituency in Belgavi district, has served as Minister in the Siddaramaiah government and has now sworn-in for the second time.
Jayamala:
Jayamala, a multilingual actress, was nominated as MLC by the Siddaramaiah government in 2014 whose tenure ends in June 2020. She has now sworn-in as Minister for the first time.
UT Khader:
UT Khader, who has been elected for the fourth consecutive time from the Mangalore assembly constituency in Dakshina Kannada district, has served as a minister in the Siddaramaiah government and has now sworn-in as minister for the second time.
KJ George:
KJ George, who has been elected legislator for the seventh time from Bharati Nagar and Sarvagnanagar constituency in Bengaluru, has previously served as Minister in the governments of Virendra Patil, Bangarappa, SM Krishna and Siddaramaiah. Now he is becoming minister for the fifth time.
Puttarangashetty:
Puttarangeshetty, the third time MLA from the Chamarajanagar constituency of Chamarajanagar district, is the only representative of most backward and lowest minority community in the state Uppara Community. He is becoming minister for the first time.
Priyank Kharge:
Priyank Kharge, who has been elected legislator for the second time from Chittapura assembly constituency in Kalaburgi district, is the son of Loka Sabha Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge. He has served as a minister in the Siddaramaiah government and is now sworn-in for the second time.
Venkata Ramanappa:
Venkataramappa, who had won the Pavagada Assembly seat of Tumkur district in 2008 as an independent candidate, had served as the first minister in the Yeddyurappa-led BJP government. He is now sworn-in as minister for the second time after winning assembly polls in 2018.
NH Shivashankar Reddy:
Sivasankar Reddy, who has been winning the assembly polls from 1999 to 2018, is now fifth time MLA from the Gauribidinur assembly constituency in Chikkaballapur district. For the first time, he is becoming a minister.
Shivanandapatil:
Sivananda Patil, who has been elected MLA for the six consecutive terms since 1994 from Basavana Bhagewadi constituency in Vijayapur district, has sworn in as minister for the first time.
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Higher edu students of madrassas face uncertain future after SC order; demands to accommodate them
Lucknow (PTI): After the Supreme Court declared higher education degrees awarded by the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Board unconstitutional, there is a demand to accommodate the about 25,000 students who are currently pursing these courses in any other recognised university.
The state government has also said it will find a way out after considering all the legal aspects of this matter.
In an order on November 5, the Supreme Court declared the Kamil and Fazil degrees -- equivalent to graduation and post-graduation degrees -- awarded by the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Board Board unconstitutional, saying it was in conflict with the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act.
Zaman Khan, the General Secretary of the Teachers Association Madaris Arabia Uttar Pradesh, said the court's decision has created a difficult situation for the thousands of current students as the board will not be able to conduct exams for these courses now.
"The order of the Supreme Court is supreme. But the government must find some way to deal with the situation that has arisen so that the future of the students studying in the Kamil and Fazil courses of the Madrasa Board does not remain dark," he told PTI said on Sunday.
Minority Welfare Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said the government will definitely find a way out by studying the SC order and discussing its various legal aspects.
On the question of whether the students studying in the Madrasa Board's Kamil and Fazil courses will be linked to any other university, the minister said, "All aspects will be considered and only after that the government will take any decision."
Madrasa Board Registrar R P Singh said about 25,000 students are studying in the Kamil and Fazil courses run by the board currently, and whatever decision the government takes will be followed.
Meanwhile, former Madrasa Board member Qamar Ali said that the Board's Kamil degree had the status of graduation and Fazil degree had the status of post-graduation, but even earlier they were not recognised for appearing in competitive examinations.
These degree-holders would get jobs only in madrasas which has also ended after the Supreme Court order, he said, demanding the current students be given a chance in recognised universities.
The Madrasa Board had earlier given a proposal to the government to accommodate the students of its Kamil and Fazil courses in the Lucknow-based 'Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu-Arabic-Persian University' but no decision was taken on it, he said.
It is not clear from the order that from when these degrees will be considered unconstitutional, but the government should take steps to affiliate these students with a UGC-recognised university, he said.
There are about 25,000 madrassas in Uttar Pradesh -- 16,500 recognised by the State Madrasa Board and 8,500 unrecognized. A total of 560 of them receive grants from the state government.
In its order on October 5, the SC upheld the constitutional validity of the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Board Act, 2004, overturning an Allahabad High Court order of March 2024 which declared it unconstitutional.
However, the SC declared the provisions pertaining to higher education (Kamil and Fazil degrees) were unconstitutional (meaning the Madrasa Board cannot offer these degrees) as they are in conflict with University Grant Commission (UGC) Act.
"The UGC Act governs the standards for higher education and a state legislation cannot seek to regulate higher education, in contravention of the provisions of the UGC Act," it said.
