Bengaluru: In the first expansion of the two-month old Karnataka Cabinet led by Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, 19 MLAs were sworn in as ministers Monday even as a Congress legislator resigned from his post over his exclusion from the ministry. Earlier in the day, AICC general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal sent a communication to Shivakumar regarding the Congress high command’s approval of 20 names to be inducted into the Cabinet. An earlier list included Bhatkal MLA Mankala Vaidya, who was a minister in the Siddaramaiah cabinet, but he was subsequently replaced by S S Mallikarjun, also a former Minister. Shivakumar was sworn in as the CM along with 13 ministers June 3, following Siddaramaiah’s resignation as CM May 28. Interestingly, several senior legislators who were part of Siddaramaiah’s Cabinet, including H C Mahadevappa, H K Patil, Dinesh Gundu Rao, K Venkatesh, M C Sudhakar, Laxmi Hebbalkar have been left out.