Yediyurappa’s cabinet now has 18 members, but the rebels are yet to be accommodated
On August 20, more than three weeks after B.S. Yediyurappa was sworn in as chief minister, 17 ministers were inducted into the Karnataka cabinet. The state can have a maximum of 34 ministers, which leaves space for 16 more.
Though the BJP formed the government thanks to the rebel MLAs who resigned from the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular), the party still does not have a comfortable majority in the assembly—it has 106 of 207 seats. The former speaker disqualified 17 rebel MLAs under the anti-defection law, reducing the strength of the assembly from 224. The rebel MLAs have challenged the speaker’s decision in the Supreme Court.
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