Woman minister berth remains vacant as Cong struggles to resolve Cabinet claims

Bengaluru, Sep 18 (UNI) The Congress government's much-awaited Cabinet expansion in Karnataka has run into a fresh political roadblock, with more than one aspirant vying for the two vacant ministerial berths and the party still unable to settle on a woman minister. The deadlock has pushed the Cabinet expansion further into uncertainty, despite expectations that the vacancies would be filled after the Monsoon session of the State Legislature. The most visible fallout of the stalemate is the continued absence of a woman in the Council of Ministers, prompting Congress Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala to publicly take responsibility for the…