Two days after the Cabinet expansion exercise, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on May 29 allocated portfolios to all ministers and kept for himself important portfolios of Finance, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Intelligence, IT/BT, Infrastructure Development and Information.
Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has been assigned major portfolios of Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development, including Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), and other civic agencies in the Bengaluru City. Both portfolios would get a huge amount of allocation in the State budget.
Senior Minister G. Parameshwars has been allotted Home excluding Intelligence, while H.K. Patil received Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Legislation and Tourism.