Days After Karnataka Cabinet Reshuffle, Murmurs Of Dissatisfaction

Anand Singh and MTB Nagaraj, both former Congress leaders who switched sides in 2019, have aired their dissatisfaction.

Portfolio allotment is a delicate exercise for any Chief Minister, leave alone a newly-sworn-in one. And Karnataka's Basavaraj Bommai has not been able to keep all of his cabinet colleagues happy. Anand Singh, who came to national attention as a Congress MLA involved in a scuffle at a resort during the collapse of the state's coalition government in 2019, has said he is not satisfied with the portfolio -- tourism, ecology, and environment -- he has been given. "I had not asked for this. I can only say that whatever request I made has not been met. As a party person, I am not prepared to comment about this. I will meet the Chief Minister once again and make my request once more," Mr Singh told reporters in his home district of Ballari. MTB Nagaraj, too, is reportedly unhappy with being put in charge of municipal administration and sugarcane. He's another former Congress leader who switched loyalties to help bring down, in 2019, the Janata Dal Secular-Congress coalition headed by former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.