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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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.
