Karnataka Cabinet expansion on Feb 6

Bangalore: The much awaited expansion of the Karnataka cabinet will take place on February 6 with chief minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday saying that 13 MLAs would take oath of office.

The decision comes after Yediyurappa received the final nod from the top brass when he visited Delhi last week. He finalised the list after a meeting with BJP president JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah.

"10+3 ministers will be inducted at the Raj Bhavan at 10,30am. Ten will be the MLAs who won the recent bypoll," he told the press.

These ten are among the seventeen Congress-JDS MLAs who switched sides to the BJP leading to the fall of the previous coalition government. Three others would be senior leaders from the BJP.

The Karnataka chief minister received the nod from the BJP central leadership on January 31 for the expansion.

"I am sitting here today in this position because of them. I had given them my word. I will keep that word," he added.