India, Aug. 3 -- The Karnataka cabinet expansion took place on Monday with the Congress inducting 20 legislators into the cabinet and filling key constitutional posts in the state legislature after months of internal consultations within the party.

The expansion takes the cabinet led by chief minister DK Shivakumar, to its full strength and concludes a prolonged exercise by the Congress leadership to balance regional, caste and political representation while filling vacant ministerial positions.

The new ministers are P M Narendraswamy, Shivaraj Tangadagi, Rudrappa Lamani, K S Basavanthappa, B Nagendra, T Raghumoorthy, Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, Rizwan Arshad, Santosh Lad, Madhu Bangarappa, Putturangashetty, Mankala Vaidya, Dr Ajay Singh, N Ch...