Two new faces to enter Modi cabinet from Karnataka

BENGALURU: With Karnataka Assembly elections next year, PM Modi seems set to induct two new faces into his ministry on Saturday in order to arrive at a perfect caste calculus by bringing in MPs from the two numerically significant communities-Lingayats and Vokkaligas — Mr Suresh Angadi (Belagavi) and Rajya Sabha member Prabhakar Kore among Lingayats, and Mr Nalin Kumar Kateel (Mangaluru), from the Bunt community who has the backing of joint secretary (organization), Santhosh, and prominent ST leader and Ballari MP Sreeramulu.