‘Grateful to CM for giving me Social Welfare’

Kota confident about effective implementation of welfare schemes

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has given me Social Welfare, a big portfolio, and I will effectively handle it, said the new Social Welfare and Backward Classes Welfare Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary here on Saturday. Talking to reporters, Mr. Poojary said he effectively discharged his duty as the Muzrai and Backward Classes Minister in B.S. Yediyurappa’s Cabinet. “Yes I am interested in Rural Development and Panchayat Raj. But I did not give any preference to the Chief Minister about the portfolio that I wanted. I am happy that Mr. Bommai has given an ordinary party worker like me to handle two important portfolios,” he said. Senior party leader K.S. Eshwarappa is more than capable of handling the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj portfolio, he added. Expressing confidence in effective implementation of welfare schemes in the two portfolios, Mr. Poojary said he will lend support to Sashikala Jolle in the handling of the Muzrai portfolio.