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The postings with cabinet ranking will be for a tenure of two years or until further orders, an official notification said.
The government is yet to announce the list of party workers to be appointed to such posts.
Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar had recently said 36 legislators and 39 party workers will be accommodated in such appointments.
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There has been some disgruntlement and growing impatience within a section of the Congress party, with legislators, who could not make it to the Ministry and were keenly aspiring for the key posts in boards and corporations, unhappy about the delay in appointments.
Also many party men were upset over the delay in rewarding loyal workers, noting that the Congress has been in power for more than seven months now.
Appointments to boards and corporations was said to be among the issues on which Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar had certain differences of opinion, according to party sources.