{"id":16971,"date":"2026-06-05T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/no-woman-in-karnataka-cabinet-how-cm-dk-shivakumar-responded-to-criticism-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:37:20","slug":"no-woman-in-karnataka-cabinet-how-cm-dk-shivakumar-responded-to-criticism-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/no-woman-in-karnataka-cabinet-how-cm-dk-shivakumar-responded-to-criticism-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"No woman in Karnataka cabinet: How CM DK Shivakumar responded to criticism | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131520332,imgsize-143278,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/karnataka-deputy-cm-dk-shivakumar.jpg\" alt=\"No woman in Karnataka cabinet: How CM DK Shivakumar responded to criticism\" title=\"Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar\">Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Facing criticism over the absence of women in his newly constituted Cabinet, Karnataka chief minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/d-k-shivakumar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">D K Shivakumar<\/a> on Thursday assured that more ministers would be inducted and that women would get representation in the government in due course.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Shivakumar took oath as chief minister on Wednesday along with 13 ministers. With the Karnataka council of ministers permitted to have a maximum strength of 34 members, including the chief minister, several berths remain vacant.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Responding to criticism from the BJP regarding the lack of women ministers, Shivakumar said, \u201cLet them (BJP) wait; there are a lot of vacancies. Last time, too, there were no women in the first round. <!-- -->We are all there,\u201d he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Emphasising his party\u2019s record on women\u2019s welfare, he added, \u201cWe have set a model in the country.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The issue has drawn criticism not only from the opposition but also from within the Congress. Leader of the opposition R Ashoka questioned the government\u2019s decision to leave women out of the first round of cabinet expansion.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Senior Congress leader Margaret Alva also voiced concern over the composition of the ministry. In a post on X, she said, \u201cCongratulations to DK Shivakumar on being sworn in as Karnataka CM. I wish him and his team success. I would have loved to see at least one Congress woman in the new Karnataka Cabinet sworn in today. Deeply disappointed that there isn\u2019t one.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Of the 13 ministers sworn in, 11 had served in the previous Siddaramaiah-led government. MLC Yathindra Siddaramaiah, son of former chief minister Siddaramaiah, and U T Khader, who recently stepped down as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, were the only new entrants to the cabinet.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Senior Dalit leader G Parameshwara was appointed deputy chief minister.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Despite expectations of broader representation, no woman legislator found a place in the first phase of cabinet formation. In the previous Siddaramaiah government, Lakshmi Hebbalkar was the sole woman minister. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/no-woman-in-karnataka-cabinet-how-cm-dk-shivakumar-responded-to-criticism\/articleshow\/131520325.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar NEW DELHI: Facing criticism over the absence of women in his newly constituted Cabinet, Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday assured that more ministers would be inducted and that women would get representation in the government in due course.Shivakumar took oath as chief minister on Wednesday along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}