New ministers of the Congress government will zoom into the Vidhana Soudha in their swanky new multi-utility vehicles (MUVs). Twenty Toyota Innovas were purchased by the department of personnel and administrative reforms (DPAR) at a cost of Rs 2.87 crore, each car costing over Rs 14 lakh.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been given an SUV Toyota Fortuner worth nearly Rs 24 lakh. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.