Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Might 20 (ANI): Congress chief Siddaramaiah was sworn in because the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second time on Saturday after the get together’s thumping victory within the Meeting elections.
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Siddaramiah on the swearing-in ceremony held on the jam-packed Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru.
This is identical stadium the place Siddaramaiah took oath in 2013 when he grew to become Chief Minister for the primary time.
Prime brass of the Congress get together together with the Gandhi members of the family – Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, get together’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 get together 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.
Different opposition leaders who had been current embrace Sharad Pawar, Kamal Haasan.
Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan attends the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected Karnataka Authorities in Bengaluru.
Forward of the ceremony, Rahul Gandhi, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah had been seen holding one another’s arms in air as a present of power and unity.
The Congress supporters stood outdoors of Siddaramaiah’s residence early morning in anticipation and celebration. Posters that includes the Gandhi household, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah had been put up in Bengaluru earlier in the present day.
A pacesetter 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 – get together MP and brother of Deputy-CM designate DK Shivakumar had been current on the Stadium.
The Congress management, which had to select between him and state Congress chief DK Shivakumar for the submit 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 get together 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 Get together (CLP) chief in Karnataka. Siddaramaiah met Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot staked a declare to kind the federal government Thursday night.
Karnataka has complicated caste equations and a historical past of voting out incumbent governments. Solely 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 throughout the meeting polls which had a number of people-oriented guarantees.
Throughout his lengthy political profession, Siddaramaiah has misplaced elections however has bounced again on account 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 received from Chamundeshwari in a bypoll. When meeting constituencies had been reorganized in 2008, he entered the meeting from Varuna and was appointed chief of the opposition.
Congress received 135 seats within the 224-member Karnataka meeting pushing BJP to 66 seats within the outcomes declared on Might 13. (ANI)
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