Bengaluru, Aug. 3 -- Former Congress ministers on Monday openly questioned the party's cabinet expansion after Karnataka's new ministry was sworn in without a single Brahmin or woman representative, with former minister Dinesh Gundu Rao describing the omission of the Brahmin community as unprecedented and veteran TB Jayachandra questioning the criteria adopted for selecting ministers.
As discontent simmered within the ruling party, AICC general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala rushed to Bengaluru amid indications that the Congress high command had stepped in to contain the fallout from the cabinet exercise. His visit came amid reports that he would meet Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, whose absence from the swearing-in ceremony fuelled spec...