Bengaluru, July 27 -- Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar, along with former CM Siddaramaiah and state Congress president BK Hariprasad, will travel to New Delhi on Monday for a possible meeting with the Congress high command to finalise the list of candidates for the 20 vacant ministries as part of the long-pending cabinet expansion in the southern state.

A meeting of senior party leaders is scheduled for Monday evening, with leaders familiar with the matter saying the much-delayed cabinet expansion could be announced as early as Tuesday or Wednesday.

The exercise comes days before Karnataka's legislature convenes for its monsoon session in the first week of August, leaving the ruling Congress in the state with little room for furth...