Kalyana Karnataka region, the home turf of AICC president M. Mallikarjun Kharge, got a raw deal in the Cabinet of the newly-formed Congress government in the State. Despite the fact that the Congress had won 26 seats out of 41 seats in the Kalyana Karnataka region comprising six districts, Mr. Priyank Kharge is the only legislator from the region to get inducted in Mr. Siddaramaiah’s cabinet.
Of the eight legislators sworn in on Saturday, Mr. Priyank Kharge is the youngest, to be sworn in as Minister for the second time in Mr. Siddaramaiah’s Cabinet.
Mr. Priyank Kharge was IT&BT Minister in the Siddaramaiah-led government between 2016 and 2018. Within his two-and-a-half-year tenure, he transformed the Department of IT, BT and Science and Technology into the Department of Technology and Innovation. The start-up challenges from youth entrepreneurs, collaboration between industries and educational institutions were some of his initiatives.
