New Delhi: The newly elected Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday mentioned that the primary Cabinet assembly has issued orders for the implementation of 5 ensures which had been promised by the social gathering earlier than the elections. The 5 ‘most important’ ensures are 200 models of free energy to all households (Gruha Jyoti); Rs 2,000 month-to-month help to the girl head of each household (Gruha Lakshmi); 10 kg of rice free to each member of a BPL family (Anna Bhagya); Rs 3,000 each month for unemployed graduate youth and Rs 1,500 for unemployed diploma holders (each within the age group of 18-25) for 2 years (Yuva Nidhi) and free journey for ladies in public transport buses (Uchita Prayana).
Addressing a press briefing after the primary Cabinet assembly in Vidhan Soudha, right here, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah mentioned, “Five guarantees in the manifesto were promised and the order for the implementation of those five guarantees was given after the first cabinet meeting. All will be in force after the next cabinet meeting which will be called within a week.”
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The Karnataka Legislative Assembly session is to be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, subsequent week. Also, hours after swearing-in as Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah lashed out on the earlier Bharatiya Janata Party authorities saying that the federal government ruling earlier than was ineffective. “Government which was ruling earlier was useless. They couldn’t get us the share of taxes properly. The Centre has to give us Rs 5,495 crores as per the finance commission recommendation.”
Earlier within the day, as many as eight Congress MLAs had been sworn in as ministers within the Karnataka Cabinet throughout the oath-taking ceremony in Bengaluru on Saturday. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge, social gathering’s MLAs G Parameshwara and MB Patil had been among the many eight MLAs.
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The different MLAs who took oath included KH Muniyappa, KJ George, Satish Jarkiholi, Ramalinga Reddy and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan. Top brass of the Congress social gathering together with the Gandhi members of the family Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, social gathering’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge had been current on the event.
The Chief Ministers of the Congress-ruled states together with Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel attended the occasion. The social gathering had additionally despatched an invite to quite a few opposition events and their leaders.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Deputy Tejashwi Yadav, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah had been additionally current throughout the swearing-in ceremony. Other opposition leaders who had been current included Sharad Pawar, and Kamal Haasan.
Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan attended the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected Karnataka Government in Bengaluru. Ahead of the ceremony, Rahul Gandhi, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah had been seen holding one another’s arms within the air as a present of power and unity.
Congress bagged 135 seats within the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ousting the ruling BJP, which received 66 seats whereas the Janata Dal (Secular) secured 19 seats within the outcomes declared on May 13.
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