Three-time BJP MLA Abhay Patil is expected to be indulged in the cabinet expansion, reshuffle scheduled this week.

Representing Belagavi South for the second term, Patil hailed from RSS background received a call from Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday night asking him to rush to Bengaluru. Patil is in Bengaluru.

CM Bommai has said to got a nod to expand, reshuffle his cabinet from BJP’s second-in-command Amit Shah who arrived Bengaluru on Monday night and immediately called those to be included newly in the cabinet including Patil.