Karna CM to consult Sonia, Digvijay on cabinet expansion

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said he would visit New Delhi to hold talks on Cabinet expansion with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi soon after the return of AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh, in charge of state party affairs, from the US.
"We are doing it (cabinet expansion). Digvijay Singh has gone to America. On his return, I would go to Delhi and talk to him and madam (Sonia Gandhi), and then will decide," he told reporters here.
Singh, who is in charge of the party affairs in Karnataka, is on a personal visit to America, and is expected to return to India in the third week of this month.

Asked if the Cabinet expansion will see light of the day by month end, Siddaramaiah said, "Will happen this month itself."
The Chief Minister has been deferring the expansion citing one reason or the other. He had recently said he would expand his Cabinet after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) polls.
Siddaramaiah's intentions to expand his ministry has invigorated the hopes of several ministerial aspirants including Malaka Raddi, Santosh Lad, Malikayya Guttedar, Vinay Kulkarni, H M Revanna, H Y Meti and Veeranna Mattikatti.
Meanwhile, Raddi said "the decision is left to the Chief Minister.