No lady in Karnataka cupboard: How CM DK Shivakumar responded to criticism | India Information
NEW DELHI: Dealing with criticism over the absence of ladies in his newly constituted Cupboard, Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday assured that extra ministers could be inducted and that girls would get illustration within the authorities in the end.Shivakumar took oath as chief minister on Wednesday together with 13 ministers. With the Karnataka council of ministers permitted to have a most power of 34 members, together with the chief minister, a number of berths stay vacant.Responding to criticism from the BJP concerning the dearth of ladies ministers, Shivakumar stated, “Allow them to (BJP) wait; there are lots of vacancies. Final time, too, there have been no ladies within the first spherical. We’re all there,” he was quoted as saying by information company PTI.Emphasising his celebration’s report on ladies’s welfare, he added, “We have now set a mannequin within the nation.”The difficulty has drawn criticism not solely from the opposition but in addition from inside the Congress. Chief of the opposition R Ashoka questioned the federal government’s choice to go away ladies out of the primary spherical of cupboard enlargement.Senior Congress chief Margaret Alva additionally voiced concern over the composition of the ministry. In a put up on X, she stated, “Congratulations to DK Shivakumar on being sworn in as Karnataka CM. I want him and his group success. I might have cherished to see not less than one Congress lady within the new Karnataka Cupboard sworn in in the present day. Deeply upset that there isn’t one.”Of the 13 ministers sworn in, 11 had served within the earlier Siddaramaiah-led authorities. MLC Yathindra Siddaramaiah, son of former chief minister Siddaramaiah, and U T Khader, who not too long ago stepped down as Speaker of the Legislative Meeting, had been the one new entrants to the cupboard.Senior Dalit chief G Parameshwara was appointed deputy chief minister.Regardless of expectations of broader illustration, no lady legislator discovered a spot within the first part of cupboard formation. Within the earlier Siddaramaiah authorities, Lakshmi Hebbalkar was the only real lady minister.
