Bengaluru: Several distinguished opposition leaders and Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah as Chief Minister and D Ok Shivakumar because the Deputy Chief Minister right here on Saturday because the grand previous occasion seeks to advertise opposition unity forward of subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha elections.
Eight newly-elected legislators are set to take oath as Ministers together with Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar.
Prominent amongst those that would be the star sights of the occasion are Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Tamil Nadu CM M Ok Stalin, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and former Jammu & Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah, the sources stated. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, nonetheless, can be conspicuous by her absence on the occasion at Sree Kanteerava Stadium.
Former union minister M Veerappa Moily stated the swearing-in ceremony is also a launchpad for opposition unity and demonstration of energy and solidarity.
Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge has additionally invited leaders of JMM, RJD, Shiv Sena, SP, PDP, CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, RSP, CPI(ML), VCK, RLD, Kerala Congress and IUML for the ceremony, the sources stated.
Banerjee has designated TMC Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar for the programme. “Banerjee skipping the event has come as some kind of a dampener, especially after her recent statement that in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, her party will support the Congress where it is strong,” a Congress chief stated.
“Wherever the Congress is strong, let them fight. We will give them support; there is nothing wrong (in that). But they also have to support other political parties,” Banerjee stated just lately.
Her assertion got here quickly after Congress scored the emphatic victory over the BJP within the southern state bagging 135 seats within the 224-member Assembly.
“I have been invited by the Congress president (Mallikarjun Kharge). It (Karnataka Assembly poll) was an important election. Also, I have an old friendship with him (Siddaramaiah). I will be going tomorrow,” Nitish Kumar informed reporters in Darbhanga on Friday.
Kumar requested journalists to carry their horses upon being repeatedly requested a couple of assembly of opposition leaders, which his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee has requested him to carry in Bihar.
“Let me come back from the function tomorrow. We will take a call in due course,” stated the JD(U) supremo, who had hinted that the assembly could possibly be held after the election within the southern state.
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