They may have just ten months to go but ministers in the Jagadish Shettar cabinet are not exactly rushing to their offices at Vidhana Soudha to attend to their files. This despite the fact that they waged an all out war to secure berths, leaving several unsuccessful ministerial aspirants fuming with one of them even resigning from the Assembly. Of the 13 new ministers in the Shettar cabinet, it was only co-operation minister, B.J. Puttaswamy who started functioning from the Vidhana Soudha on Monday. The remaining 12 ministers are yet to make an appearance.
Deputy chief minister K.S. Eshwarappa did offer puja at his office and even reviewed drought relief work in Bellary but left for New Delhi on Tuesday to meet Union ministers. He is yet to start functioning from his Vidhana Soudha office. As for the others, they have one reason or the other to cite for failing to make it to their offices despite being sworn in on Thursday. The real reason, said sources, is that they consider the Hindu month of Ashada inauspicious.