Guwahati: Siddaramaiah has been sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second time today, alongside Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar as Deputy chief minister.
The Chief Minister and his Cabinet were sworn in at Bengaluru’s Kanteerava Stadium at 12:30 p.m. by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot.
Siddaramaiah took his first oath as Chief Minister at the same location in 2013.
The Karnataka CM-elect Siddaramaiah and his prospective deputy D K Shivakumar were given permission by the Congress high command to choose 10 candidates each for a potential 29 to 30-member ministry on Friday. This laid the groundwork for the new state government, which will be sworn in on Saturday in front of party leaders, the CMs of four UPA allies and a representative of the newly-found friend TMC.
According to Congress sources, no invites have been given to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal or his Telangana counterpart KCR, while West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee will not attend due to previous commitments.
According to reports, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati are not among those invited.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu President Minister MK Stalin, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav, and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray are among those invited.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, D Raja and Sitaram Yechury of the Left, and actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan have all been invited.
Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan, Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh, and Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu of Himachal Pradesh have all been invited by the Congress.