CM to leave for Delhi on Jan 30 to discuss Ministry expansion

: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday said he would leave for New Delhi on January 30 to discuss the much awaited Ministry expansion with the BJP high command and expressed confidence that the exercise would be completed in a couple of days.

He also indicated the possibility of a cabinet rejig and noted that the call will be taken by the party leadership.

Speaking to reporters in Belagavi, he said that in the backdrop of ongoing talk in the state that the exercise was getting delayed, he would leave for Delhi tomorrow and meet the party national president J P Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and try to expand the ministry as soon as possible in two or three days.

To a question on reports that the expansion exercise was scheduled for January 31,he said "I'm going to Delhi tomorrow. If possible, tomorrow or within two days (it will be done),but I will go tomorrow and get it (list of Ministers) cleared."