Karnataka Cabinet Portfolios Distributed: CM Retains Key Departments

In the new Congress government in Karnataka led by Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar on Wednesday (August 12, 2026), portfolios were distributed among cabinet ministers. Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar has kept the state finance department with himself, while Zameer Ahmed Khan has been given the responsibility of the housing department. According to a notification issued by the office of the state governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar will keep the departments of finance, cabinet affairs, personnel and administrative reforms, intelligence, information, law, justice and human rights, parliamentary affairs and legislation, and agriculture marketing. In addition, he will also control the departments of all local urban bodies under the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) and Bengaluru Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA) along with the Town and Country Planning Commissionerate. According to the notification, Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar has assigned the housing department to B. Zameer Ahmed Khan, Ramalinga Reddy to the forest, ecology and environment department, and Lakshman Savadi to the agriculture marketing department, Rudra Muniyappa to the food and civil supplies department, Muniyappa to the civil society department to Muniyappa, Arshad Rizwan and