Last Update: May 20, 2023, 2:07 PM IST
Siddaramaiah administered the oath of office to Karnataka Chief Minister and DK Shivakumar as Deputy Chief Minister at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday.(Image/PTI and ANI)
Congress believes that Karnataka’s swearing-in ceremony has acted as a great platform to show opposition unity and thus, many leaders from like-minded parties were invited to the event.
After weeks of deliberations and suspense, Congress veteran Siddaramaiah was on Saturday sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka, while state party president DK Shivakumar was sworn in as his deputy.
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath of office and secrecy to the Chief Minister and his cabinet, which includes 8 ministers in the first phase of induction, at the Shree Kanteerava Stadium.
The place where Siddaramaiah took oath in 2013 when he became the chief minister for the first time.
Eight other ministers who were inducted into the Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka cabinet are G Parameshwara, KH Muniyappa, KJ George, MB Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Priyank Kharge (AICC President M Mallikarjun Kharge’s son), Ramalinga Reddy, and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan.
Congress believes that Karnataka’s swearing-in ceremony has acted as a great platform to show opposition unity and thus, many leaders from like-minded parties were invited to the event.
Congress President Kharge had invited leaders of several like-minded parties for the swearing-in ceremony. The event looked like a show of strength for the opposition parties amid efforts for unity to take on the ruling BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, NCP President Sharad Pawar, National Conference Supremo Farooq Abdullah, PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti, Actor-politician Kamal Haasan, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI general secretary D Raja, among others, participated in the event.
(With PTI inputs)