Siddaramaiah took the oath of office as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka on Saturday, a week after the Congress' landslide victory in the Karnataka assembly elections. DK Shivakumar served as his deputy. At Bengaluru's Kanteerava Stadium, Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar, and eight legislators, including former Dy CM G Parameshwara, MLAs MB Patil, and Priyank Kharge, are being sworn in as ministers. Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar met with senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Friday to discuss all potential cabinet members and invite the Congress high command to today's oath-taking ceremony. The head of the Congress Legislature Party, Siddaramaiah, wrote to the governor of Karnataka to ask him to swear in eight MLAs as Cabinet Ministers.
The Officials who are confirmed as Pastors are: G Parameshwara (SC), K H Muniyappa (SC), K J George (Minority-Christian), M B Patil (Lingayat), Satish Jarkiholi (ST-Valmiki), Priyank Kharge (SC and AICC President M Mallikarjun Kharge's child), Ramalinga Reddy (Reddy), and B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan (Minority-Muslim). Shivakumar, having a place with the Vokkaliga people group, is among those engaged with the development of the bureau, sources said. The Deputy Chief Minister has promised to keep the promises made to the people of Karnataka by leaders like Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi at the first Cabinet meeting.
With the presence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, and a number of other leaders from the non-BJP bloc, the oath-taking ceremony of the Congress government in Karnataka doubled as a stage for opposition unity. The social event connotes an aggregate exertion in the approach of the 2024 Lok Sabha surveys. Leaders from a variety of political parties, including JMM, RJD, Shiv Sena, SP, PDP, CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, RSP, CPI(ML), VCK, RLD, Kerala Congress, and IUML, have been invited to the swearing-in ceremony by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.
Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal Chief Minister and supremo of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) will not be present at the event, which aims to foster opposition unity. Her absence is noticeable. Be that as it may, TMC will send in its delegate to make the party's presence felt at the event. The ruling BJP was reduced to 66 seats, while the Congress won 135 out of 224 seats in the southern state of Karnataka. The JD-S which was expected to assume the part of 'kingmaker' in the state was additionally decreased to 19 seats.
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