Bengaluru, June 5 -- Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge on Friday expressed gratitude to senior Congress leadership after being entrusted with significant responsibilities in the new state cabinet, and said that his vision for governance focused on building an "enlightened society".

Priyank Kharge has been allocated the Home (excluding Intelligence), IT & BT, and e-Governance. This comes after the newly appointed Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday allocated portfolios among 13 ministers in his Cabinet with immediate effect.

In a post on X, the newly appointed Karnataka Home Minister wrote, "I express my sincere gratitude to Congress party leaders Shri @kharge, Shri @RahulGandhi, Shri @DKShivakumar, Shri @siddaramiah,...