bengaluru the long delayed cabinet expansion in karnataka might take place next month with chief minister bs yediyurappa indicating on sunday that it may take place in mid january around makara sankrantithe high command has asked me to come after a week maybe by the end of this month we will finalise the list cabinet expansion he told reporters after the oath taking ceremony of 13 of the 15 newly elected mlas at the vidhana soudha the state secretariatasked whether the news of the cabinet expansion would come in sankranti he said maybe by that timethe chief minister said he needed time to carry out the rejig and expansion as he has to leave for delhi and hold discussions with the party high commandto a question on cabinet berths to the newly elected bjp mlas yediyurappa said there are no differences of opinion on this issue with party leaders in delhiwe had promised the newly elected mlas that we will make them ministers which we will fulfill there is no doubt about itthose who took oath as mlas on sunday were mahesh kumathalli athani constituency srimant patil kagwad ramesh jarkiholi gokak shivaram hebbar yellapur b c patil hirekerur arun kumar pujar rane bennur anand singh vijayanagar dr k sudhakar chikkaballapur byrathi basavaraj kr puram st somashekhar yashwanthapur k gopalaiah mahalakshmi layout sharath bachegowda hoskote mc narayana gowda kr pettwo congress mlas rizwan arshad shivajinagar and p manjunath hunsur did not take oath on sundayof the 13 disqualified mlas fielded by bjp 11 won the december 5 bypolls while two others mtb nagaraj and ah vishwanath lost the electionthe cabinet expansion would not be an easy task as yediyurappa would have to strike a balance by accommodating the victorious disqualified legislators as he had promised and also make place for old guards upset at being neglected in the first round of the induction exercisehe also has to give adequate representation to various castes and regions in his cabinet that currently has 18 ministers including the chief minister and the sanctioned strength is 34though yediyurappa had made it clear that the 11 disqualified mlas who successfully contested the bypolls on party tickets would be made ministers nagaraj and vishwanath are lobbying hard to get ministerial berths said bjp sources