Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's much awaited Cabinet expansion took place on Thursday. Yediyurappa rewarded Cabinet berths to 10 defectors who helped the BJP bring down the Congress-JDS coalition and come to power. The ten are S T Somashekar (Yeshwantpur constituency), Ramesh Jarkiholi (Gokak), Anand Singh (Vijayanagar), K Sudhakar (Chickballapur), Byrathi Basavaraj (K R Puram), A Shivaram Hebbar (Yellapur), B C Patil (Hirekerur), K Gopalaiah (Mahalakshmi Layout), K C Narayana Gowda (K R Pet) and Shrimant Balasaheb Patil (Kagwad).
