bengaluru the wait for senior bjp legislators to get a real shot at power through ministerial berths is getting irritatingly longer as chief minister b s yediyurappa could not meet bjp national president amit shah on tuesday to seek his nod for cabinet expansionyediyurappa who flew to new delhi on monday night is hoping to meet shah on wednesday and take up cabinet expansion on friday if he gets the green signal from himmany aspirants are keen to take oath on friday to coincide with the auspicious varamahalakshmi pooja party sources saida senior leader who accompanied yeddiyurappa to new delhi said they could not meet shah as he was busy in lok sabha shah was busy with the bill on withdrawing the special status to jammu and kashmir and hence yediyurappa decided not meet him we are expecting the home minister to meet the cm on wednesday morning since the house was adjourned sine die on tuesday said state bjp general secretary n ravikumar as soon as yediyurappa gets the green signal the date for the cabinet expansion will be decided he addedearlier in the day yediyurappa met prime minister narendra modi and sought early nod for the proposed rs 5912crore reservoir in mekedatu on the cauvery riverthe cm also sought pms intervention in early publication of a gazette notification of the awards of krishna water dispute tribunal and mahadayi water dispute tribunal besides declaring the upper krishna project stage3 as national projectyediyurappa also drew modis attention to drought and flood situation in the state and sought financial assistance to take up relief and rehabilitation effortsthe cm later met defence minister rajnath singh finance minister nirmala sitharaman highways and transport minister nitin gadkari and agriculture and rural development minister narendra singh tomar he also called on bjp working president j p naddain his meeting with the finance minister the cm sought income tax exemption to state building and other construction workers board he also requested for the release of performance grant under 14th finance commission to urban as well as rural local bodiesin the meeting with tomar yediyurappa requested for extension of cutoff date for enrolment of farmers under the pradhan mantri fasal bima yojna pmfby for the ongoing kharif season to august 14 2019the cm during his meeting with gadkari requested the latter to take up proposed four lane ring road for belgaum city upgradation of chitradurgashimoga section of nh13 and permanent restoration work of shiradi ghat and sampaje ghat on nh275earlier during the day the chief minister reviewed construction of a new building of karnataka bhavan at chanakyapuri in the national capital the cm also hosted dinner for karnataka mps and union ministers from the state at karnataka bhavansenior bjp leaders jagadish shettar r ahsok basavaraj bommai v somanna and othera accompanied yediyurappa