Bengaluru/New Delhi: Happy days are ahead for the legislators who wanted a berth in the ministry. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah along with KPCC president G Parameshwara and KPCC working president Dinesh Gundu Rao met AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday and successfully convinced to give a fair share of posts to legislators as heads for government boards and corporations.
As Rahul was keen to reserve many of those posts for party workers as part of the plan to reward those working hard to build the party, the appointment of heads for government boards and corporations was delayed. Siddaramaiah explained the need to assuage the hurt feelings of senior legislators in the larger interest of the party ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls.
As many as 20 legislators including Malikaiah Guttedar, Shivananda Patil, M T B Nagaraj, R V Devaraj, B R Yavagal and Rahim Khan have been approved for appointment as heads of various boards and corporations. Sources said that Siddaramaiah wants to fill 70 to 80 posts, bulk of them going to party workers. Nominating members for the Legislative Council too figured during the talks.
The names Baraguru Ramachandrappa, K Marulasiddappa, former legislator C M Lingappa and businessman K P Nanjundi are making rounds for the three vacant slots of nomination category in the council.
