RakeshKarnataka chief minister H.D. PTI pictrueBangalore: Caste equations weigh heavily on how many Congress and Janata Dal Secular legislators will eventually find a place in the cabinet headed by Karnataka chief minister H.D. The partners have agreed that the Congress would get 22 slots and the JDS 12 in the 34-member cabinet in the works. Shivakumar, credited with keeping the flock of 78 newly elected MLAs together in the face of alleged poaching attempts by the BJP, was not considered for the post of deputy chief minister was because he is a Vokkaliga, the caste to which chief minister Kumaraswamy belongs. But the problem is that he wants to be the president (of the Karnataka Congress) and also a cabinet minister.

Source: The Telegraph May 27, 2018 21:11 UTC