Hope that all 11 MLAs will be made ministers: Ramesh Jarkiholi
Amid speculation that all the 11 legislators, who won the assembly bypolls on BJP ticket after defecting from the Congress and JD(S), will not make it to the ministry during the upcoming expansion of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa-led cabinet, Ramesh Jarkiholi, MLA, on Tuesday expressed hope that all of them will be made ministers.
According to party sources, there are talks within the state BJP that the expansion of the ministry was likely to take place on Friday, and Yediyurappa may travel to New Delhi on Thursday to get final approval from the party high command.
Though Yediyurappa himself along with several senior state BJP leaders have maintained that expansion will take place by this month end, there is still no official confirmation on the date.
"According to us all 11 of us (will become ministers), in media there are reports that five or six, we are not aware of it.
We want all 11 to become ministers, let us see what high command says," said Jarkiholi who ...