Bommai is travelling to Delhi on Wednesday to attend a meeting called for by Amit Shah with CMs of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Bommai had earlier indicated that the cabinet exercise is likely after Gujarat Assembly polls. (Basavaraj S Bommai/Twitter)
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday, 13 December, said that he is prepared to discuss the Cabinet expansion with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP leadership if the issue comes up for discussion during his New Delhi visit.
Bommai is travelling to the national capital on Wednesday to attend the meeting called by Shah with the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka, to discuss the raging border dispute between the two states.
“Officially, the meeting is regarding the border dispute. After that, if he (Shah) raises the issue, I will be going prepared,” the chief minister said, in response to a question on Cabinet expansion.
Bommai had earlier indicated that the Cabinet expansion exercise was likely after the Gujarat Assembly polls.
The chief minister has been under intense pressure for some time now to expand and rejig the Cabinet to make way for fresh faces ahead of the Assembly elections next year.
There were some reports of a possible Cabinet expansion by filling six vacant posts or a kind of a rejig by dropping a few and inducting an equal number of new faces.
There also has been talk in some quarters that a Gujarat-like, complete top-to-bottom overhaul of the state ministry may take place. However, many aspirants feel it is “too late now” with the polls fast approaching.
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