Date:12/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/12/stories/2006081211420400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Reshuffle of district in-charge Ministers

Staff Reporter

Major reshuffle of district in-charge ministers

BANGALORE: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, who represents Ramanagaram Assembly constituency, will be in-charge of Bangalore Rural District.

In a reshuffle of district in-charge ministers, Mr. Chennigappa will continue to supervise his home district Tumkur.

As reported in these columns, Home and Law Minister M.P. Prakash replaces Tourism Minister B. Sriramulu of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as in-charge of Bellary district. The change is being viewed in the context of the serious allegation of bribe taking against the Chief Minister levelled by the suspended BJP MLC Janardhana Reddy who is from Bellary district. Mr. Sriramulu was an associate of Mr. Reddy till recently when he distanced himself from him after the bribery issue surfaced.

Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa will be in-charge of his home district Shimoga while Public Works Minister H.D. Revanna has been given his home district of Hassan. Mr. Revanna has been holding additional charge of Mysore district so far. Medical Education and Animal Husbandry Minister V.S. Acharya will be in-charge of Udupi.

The other districts and the ministers in-charge are: Bagalkot: Govind M. Karojol; Bangalore Urban District: R. Ashok; Belgaum: K. Shashikanth Naik;

Bidar: Bandeppa Kashempur; Bijapur: K.S. Eshwarappa; Chamarajanagar: D.T. Jayakumar;

Chickmaglur: D.H. Shankara Murthy; Chitradurga: Basavarj Horatti; Davangere: S.A. Ravindranath,

Dharwad: Jagadish Shettar; Gadag: B. Sriramulu;

Gulbarga: Sharanabasappa Darshanapur; Haveri: C.M. Udasi; Uttara Kannada: Shivananda Nayak;

Kodagu: Ramachandra Gowda; Kolar: Balachandra Jarakiholi; Koppal: Iqbal Ansari; Mandya: N. Cheluvaraya Swamy; Dakshina Kannada: B. Nagaraj Shetty; and Raichur: Alkod Hanumanthappa.