CM DK Shivakumar keeps finance, Priyank Kharge gets home in new Karnataka Cabinet

Key points

• The Karnataka government on Thursday issued the official notification allocating portfolios to members of the newly constituted Cabinet headed by Chief Minister DK Shivakumar.
• The development comes a day after Shivakumar took oath as Chief Minister following the resignation of Siddaramaiah on May 28, formalising a pre-agreed power-sharing arrangement within the Congress and bringing an end to months of speculation over the state’s leadership transition.
• According to the notification issued by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, Chief Minister Shivakumar will retain the Finance, Cabinet Affairs, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR), and Intelligence portfolios, along with all unallocated departments.
• Congress leader Priyank Kharge, son of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, has been entrusted with the Home Department, along with Information Technology & Biotechnology and E-Governance.
• KH Muniyappa, MB Patil, Sathish Jarkiholi and Sharan Prakash Patil have retained their respective portfolios of Food & Civil Supplies, Industries, Public Works, and...