Karnataka cabinet: Siddaramaiah keeps finance, IT-BT; Bengaluru development & irrigation for DKS

Siddaramaiah also keeps Information technology & bio technology. Sources said both Congress leaders MB Patil and Priyank Kharge were on the race for IT-BT portfolio.  He will also handle crucial Infrastructure Development Department portfolio, which is responsible for the execution of 148-Km Bengaluru suburban rail project at a cost of Rs 15,767 crore.

Shivakumar gets Bengaluru city development and major & medium irrigation. The Bengaluru city development portfolio will include the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), responsible for executing the city's crucial Metro rail project, as well as important departments lke BBMP, BDA, BWSSB and BMRDA.

Implementation of 'freebies'

The Congress party is relying on Siddaramaiah, who has previously presented 13 state budgets as finance minister, to ensure the implementation of the five poll guarantees, which are estimated to cost over Rs 50,000 crore-Rs 60,000 crore per year.

MB Patil made the minister for large & medium industries. Patil, Lingayat strongman and five-time MLA, previously served as the minister of home affairs in HD Kumaraswamy's cabinet (2018-2019) and held the water resources portfolio in Siddaramaiah's previous term (2013-2018).

BTM Layout MLA Ramalinga Reddy, who previously held the home and transport portfolios in Siddaramaiah's cabinet (2013-2018), got the transport and muzrai portfolios. Reddy will be responsible for implementing the Congress poll guarantee to provide free bus passes for women passengers across the state.

Sarvagnanagar MLA KJ George gets the energy portfolio, which includes the task of implementing another Congress guarantee of providing 200 units of free power to households. Santhosh S Lad, MLA from Kalagatagi constituency in the Dharwad district, got the labour portfolio.

Byrathi Suresh, Hebbal MLA and a close confidant of Siddaramaiah, received the urban development & town planning (excluding Bengaluru city development) portfolio.

Priyank, son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the incumbent MLA from Chittapur, received rural development and panchayat raj.

Other ministers and their portfolios are as follows:

G Parameshwara: Home (excluding intelligence) HK Patil: Law and parliamentary affairs, legislation, tourism Sharanabasappa Darshanapur: Small scale industries, public sector industries KH Muniyappa: Food & civil supplies, consumer affairs Satish Jarkiholi: Public works BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan: Housing, wakf, and minority welfare. Krishna Byregowda: Revenue (excluding Muzrai) Dinesh Gundurao: Health and family welfare N Chaluvarayaswamy: Agriculture K Venkatesh: Animal husbandry & sericulture HC Mahadevappa: Social welfare Eshwar Khandre: Forest, ecology, and environment KN Rajanna: Co-operation excluding agriculture marketing. Shivanand Patil: Textiles, sugarcane development & directorate of sugar, agricultural marketing from co-operation department Timmapur Ramappa Balappa: Excise SS Mallikarjun: Mines & geology, horticulture Tangadagi Shivaraj Sangappa: Backward class, Kannada and culture. Sharanaprakash Rudrappa Patil: Medical education and skill development Mankal Vaidya: Fisheries & ports, inland transport Laxmi R Hebbalkar: women & child development, disabled & senior citizens empowerment Rahim Khan: Municipal administration, Haj D Sudhakar: Planning & statistics NS Boseraju: Minor irrigation, science and technology Madhu Bangarappa: Primary and secondary education Dr MC Sudhakar: Higher education B Nagendra: Youth services, sports and ST welfare.