Bengaluru, Aug. 10 -- Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar is returning to Bengaluru from New Delhi with the Congress high command's broad approval on the **composition of the expanded ministry and the allocation of portfolios**, bringing the prolonged cabinet exercise closer to conclusion amid intense lobbying within the ruling party.
Shivakumar held discussions with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior party leader KC Venugopal in New Delhi on the composition of the ministry and distribution of departments. He is understood to have secured clarity on the political balance of the expanded team as well as the broad portfolio-sharing formula, party sources said.
The discussions assume significance as the Congress leadership s...