Basavaraj Bommai took oath as Karnataka Chief Minister right this moment, succeeding BS Yediyurappa who resigned on Monday. Mr Bommai was sworn-in by the Governor in a short ceremony in state capital Bengaluru. Mr Yediyurappa was current on the stage.
Mr Bommai, 61, was picked for the highest put up in Karnataka at a gathering of BJP MLAs yesterday.
An MLA from Shiggaon in central Karnataka’s Haveri district, Mr Bommai is a politically highly effective Lingayat chief like Mr Yediyurappa and was amongst his shut confidantes. The Veerashaiva-Lingayat group varieties 16 per cent of Karnataka’s 68 million inhabitants.
The son of Janata Dal’s SR Bommai – a former Chief Minister of Karnataka within the Nineteen Eighties – Mr Bommai joined the BJP from the Janata Dal United in 2008. He instructed NDTV that he “by no means anticipated it” and had religion solely in his “onerous work”.
