But the exercise -- five days after he was sworn-in alone -- has set off dissatisfaction among a section of Congress legislators who failed to get the berth.

Significantly, none of the MLCs were accommodated. Mining baron and Rajya Sabha member Anil Lad, elected from Bellary city, former Working President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee DK Shivakumar and R Roshan Baig failed to make it, in the wake of some pressure from within Congress to start off with a "clean slate" by denying ministership to the "tainted".