Bengaluru: Four days after 29 ministers took oath Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday allocated cabinet portfolios. Bommai retained DPAR, Finance, and Intelligence from Home, Cabinet Affairs, Bengaluru Development and all unallotted portfolios.


BJP ministers from north Karnataka were given plum posts. Newly inducted loyal party leaders were also awarded creme posts. Also, the rebels who resigned from Congress and JD-(S) alliance to bring BJP into power mostly continued with earlier portfolios.


Here is a list of Karnataka Ministers:



  • Home department: Araga Jnanendra.

  • Major and Medium Irrigation portfolio: Govind Karajol

  • Revenue portfolio: R Ashoka.

  • Transport portfolio with ST Welfare department: B Sreeramulu.

  • Housing Ministry and Infrastructure Development portfolio: V Somanna.

  • Forest, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs ministries: Umesh V Katti.

  • Fisheries, Ports and Inland Development portfolios: S Angara.

  • Minor Irrigation, Law, parliamentary Affairs and Legislation portfolios: JC Madhuswamy.

  • Higher Education, IT and BT, Science and Technology, Skill Development ministries: CN Ashwathnarayan.

  • Public Works Department (PWD): CC Patil.

  • Ecology and Environment ministries: Anand Singh.

  • Social Welfare, Backward Classes Welfare: Kota Srinivas Poojari.

  • Animal Husbandry ministry: Prabhu Chouhan.

  • Large and Medium Industries department: Murugesh Nirani.

  • Labour ministry: Aravind Hebbar Shivaram.

  • Co-operation department: ST Somashekar,

  • Agriculture portfolios: BC Patil.

  • Urban Development (including KUWSDB & KUDC): Byrathi Basavaraj.

  • Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education departments: K Sudhakar.

  • Excise department: K Gopalaiah.

  • Muzrai, Haj and Wakf departments: Shashikala Jolle.

  • Municipal Administration, Small Scale Industries, Public Sector Industries departments: MTB Nagaraj.

  • Sericulture, Youth Empowerment and Sports ministry: Narayanagowda.

  • Primary and Secondary Education ministry: BC Nagesh.

  • Sakala portfolio: S Sureshkumar.

  • Energy, Kannada and Culture portfolios: V Sunilkumar.

  • Mines and Geology, Women and Child Development and Disabled and Senior Citizens Empowerment portfolios: Achar Halappa Basappa.

  • Handloom and Textile Department, Sugarcane Development and Directorate of Sugar : Shankar B. Patil Munenakoppa.

  • Horticulture and Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics Department: Muniratna.