Shivakumar ministry

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The Shivakumar Ministry (also referred to as the D. K. Shivakumar ministry) is the 35th Council of Ministers of Karnataka, headed by D. K. Shivakumar of the Indian National Congress. It was sworn in on 3 June 2026 and succeeded the Second Siddaramaiah ministry. The Governor of Karnataka, Thawarchand Gehlot, administered the oath of office and secrecy to the members of the council of ministers at the Glass House of Lok Bhavan, Bengaluru, at 4.05 pm. Prior to the ceremony, the sitting Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, U. T. Khader, resigned from the Speakership to accept a ministerial berth in the new cabinet, leaving the post vacant pending election of a successor by the House. The Speakership remained vacant for nearly two months, with Deputy Speaker Rudrappa Lamani — in office since July 2023 — presiding over sittings of the Assembly in the interim. On 3 August 2026, the Congress high command named Gurupadagouda Patil to succeed Khader as Speaker; Lamani, inducted into the Cabinet the same day, vacated the Deputy Speakership in turn and was succeeded by Mankala Vaidya, elected on 18 August 2026. Shivakumar's accession followed an internal Congress power-sharing arrangement under which Siddaramaiah resigned as Chief Minister after the midpoint of the term begun with the 2023 Assembly election. The transition marked the first time since 2004 that the Congress had placed a Vokkaliga leader at the head of a Karnataka government, a development widely read as a challenge to the Janata Dal (Secular)'s traditional hold on the community and as a recalibration of the party's AHINDA-based social coalition ahead of the next Assembly election, expected by May 2028. The ministry was initially constituted with 14 members (including the Chief Minister), all carried over from the previous government except for U. T. Khader and Yathindra Siddaramaiah....