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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BharatPe fraud case: Delhi HC quashes lookout circular against Ashneer Grover, wife
New Delhi, Nov 12: The Delhi High Court has ordered cancellation of a lookout circular (LOC) issued against Ashneer Grover, the former MD of payment app BharatPe, and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover, noting that the FIR lodged against them over allegations of cheating and forgery has already been quashed.
Justice Sanjeev Narula passed the order on Monday after the court was informed that another bench of the high court quashed the FIR on the same day.
The FIR was quashed by Justice Chandra Dhari Singh after considering a plea moved by the Grovers stating that they have arrived at a settlement with the fintech company.
In his order, Justice Narula said, "Although the copy of the order (quashing the FIR) is not available as of now, the aforenoted fact is not disputed by the counsel for the parties.
"In light of the fact that the underlying FIR has been quashed, the LOC issued by respondent No. 3 (Bureau of Immigration), in the opinion of the court, will not survive."
The LOC was issued by the Bureau of Immigration at the instance of Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in view of the investigation against the Grovers in the cheating and forgery FIR.
The court was hearing a plea moved by Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover seeking quashing of the LOC issued against them in connection with the investigation into the cheating and forgery case.
"Accordingly, the present petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents to cancel the LOC against the petitioners in their records," the court noted.
Earlier, the Grovers claimed that they were informed about the LOC for the first time when they were detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on November 16, 2023, while they were scheduled to travel to the US.
After being detained, they were informed that the LOC was operational from November 6, 2023.
In May last year, the EOW filed an FIR against Grover, his wife Madhuri, and others under eight sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 467 and 468 (forgery), and 471 (using forged documents as genuine) for an alleged Rs 81 crore fraud after a complaint was lodged by BhartPe, the fintech unicorn.
In its complaint, BharatPe alleged that Grover and his family caused damages to the tune of Rs 81.3 crore through illegitimate payments to bogus human resource consultants, inflated and undue payments through pass-through vendors connected to the accused, sham transactions in input tax credit and payment of penalty to GST authorities, illegal payment to travel agencies, forged invoices by Madhuri, and destruction of evidence.
Madhuri was the head of controls at BharatPe before she was fired in 2022 after a forensic audit revealed several irregularities.
Subsequently, Grover resigned as the chief executive officer of the fintech firm in March 2022.
