New IndPress

Bangalore, Jun 22: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and his brother HD Revanna created history in State politics by becoming the first brothers to be part of a government, when the latter took oath as a minister on Wednesday.

Though there had been instances of family members getting elected to Assembly and Parliament in the past from the State, this is for the first time that two members of a family have become part of the government.

While Kumaraswamy is at the helm of affairs after staging a political coup in January this year, his elder brother Revanna will continue with the PWD and Energy portfolios he held in the previous government.

Revanna was first elected to the Assembly in 1994, but he was denied a ministerial berth as his father, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, was the Chief Minister then.

Revanna, however, made it to the Cabinet soon after his father became Prime Minister.

After the split verdict in 2004, Revanna became a minister in the Dharam Singh government, while Kumaraswamy confined himself to party work and continued as an MLA before he brought down that government.

Now taking a cue from neighbouring Tamil Nadu where Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and his son MK Stalin are a part of the government, the “most influential political family” of Karnataka got two of its members in the ministry.