Senior Congress chief Siddaramaiah has been sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second time period, together with state Congress President D Ok Shivakumar as Deputy Chief Minister, and eight legislators as Ministers this afternoon. The eight ministers inducted in Siddaramaiah’s cupboard are G Parameshwara (SC), Ok H Muniyappa (SC), Ok J George (Minority-Christian), M B Patil (Lingayat), Satish Jarkiholi (ST-Valmiki), Priyank Kharge (SC and AICC President M Mallikarjun Kharge’s son), Ramalinga Reddy (Reddy), and B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan (Minority-Muslim).
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Siddaramiah, DK Shivakumar and the ministers on the swearing-in ceremony held on the jam-packed Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru. This is similar stadium the place Siddaramaiah took oath in 2013 when he grew to become Chief Minister for the primary time. Top brass of the Congress social gathering together with the Gandhi relations – Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, social gathering’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge have 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 have been additionally current through the swearing-in ceremony.
Bengaluru | Dr G Parameshwara, KH Muniyappa, KJ George and MB Patil take oath as cupboard ministers within the newly-elected Karnataka Government. pic.twitter.com/vGHhl0louL
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Other opposition leaders who have been current embody Sharad Pawar, Kamal Haasan. Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan attends the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected Karnataka Government in Bengaluru. Ahead of the ceremony, Rahul Gandhi, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah have been seen holding one another’s fingers in air as a present of energy and unity.
The Congress supporters stood exterior of Siddaramaiah’s residence early morning in anticipation and celebration. Posters that includes the Gandhi household, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah have been put up in Bengaluru earlier as we speak. A frontrunner with sturdy grassroots join, Siddaramaiah has been related to the formulation of state budgets for a number of years and has an eye fixed for element.
Congress MLA Priyank Kharge, G Parameshwara and DK Suresh – social gathering MP and brother of Deputy-CM designate DK Shivakumar have been current on the Stadium. The Congress management, which had to select between him and state Congress chief DK Shivakumar for the publish of Chief Minister following an emphatic win within the meeting polls earlier this month, apparently felt that the previous Chief Minister’s large administrative expertise will come useful in implementing manifesto guarantees in view of their monetary implication.
The CLP assembly was held on the social gathering workplace in Bengaluru after Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar returned from the nationwide capital after days of deliberation for the chief ministerial face. Shivakumar moved a decision to elect Siddaramaiah as a brand new CLP chief. All members endorsed it unanimously.
Siddaramaiah on Thursday was elected unanimously because the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) chief in Karnataka. Siddaramaiah met Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot staked a declare to type the federal government Thursday night. Karnataka has advanced caste equations and a historical past of voting out incumbent governments. Only three Chief Ministers earlier than Siddaramaiah – S Nijalingappa (1962 and 1967, three phrases together with 1956); D Devaraj Urs (1972 and 1978) and RK Hegde (1983 and 1985) had two phrases as Chief Minister.
Siddaramaiah,74, launched a number of welfare schemes throughout his five-year tenure as Chief Minister from 2013 and it helped the Congress marketing campaign through the meeting polls which had a number of people-oriented guarantees. During his lengthy political profession, Siddaramaiah has misplaced elections however has bounced again because of his sturdy dedication and his quest for “social justice”.
Siddaramaiah grew to become the Finance Minister within the cupboard of then Karnataka Chief Minister HD Deve Gowda. He gained from Chamundeshwari in a bypoll. When meeting constituencies have been reorganized in 2008, he entered the meeting from Varuna and was appointed chief of the opposition. Congress gained 135 seats within the 224-member Karnataka meeting pushing BJP to 66 seats within the outcomes declared on May 13.
