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Congress’s Show Of Strength At Karnataka Oath-Taking Ceremony: 10 Facts



Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, and eight cupboard ministers, additionally took oath in the present day.

New Delhi:
Congress chief Siddaramaiah in the present day formally took cost as Karnataka’s new Chief Minister after taking oath and finishing formalities at an enormous occasion in Bengaluru the place round 15,000 supporters had gathered.

Here is your 10-point information to this large story:

  1. Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar, who was locked in a dramatic battle with Siddaramaiah for the highest job for every week after their social gathering’s emphatic win, took oath because the solo Deputy Chief Minister.

  2. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who attended the occasion alongside together with his sister and the social gathering’s nationwide normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, took the stage to reiterate his social gathering would fulfil the five guarantees it had promised. A choice can be taken within the very first cupboard assembly, which he mentioned can be held in a couple of hours.

  3. “After Congress’s victory, many issues have been written as to how Congress received this election, totally different analyses have been finished, however I wish to say that Congress received as a result of we stood with the poor, Dalits, and Adivasis, backwards. We had fact, poor individuals. BJP had cash, police and every part, however the individuals of Karnataka defeated all their powers,” Rahul Gandhi mentioned, including that his social gathering will give the state a clear, non-corrupt authorities.

  4. Eight newly elected MLAs with various illustration, authorised by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge this morning — G Parameshwara, KH Muniyappa, KJ George, MB Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Priyank Kharge, Ramalinga Reddy, and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan — additionally took the oath of workplace. Portfolios have not been distributed to them but.

  5. Prime Opposition leaders, together with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, CPI’s D Raja, Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, PDP’s Mehbuba Mufti, Sharad Pawar from NCP, Jammu & Kashmir Nationwide Convention’s Farooq Abdullah, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechury, and actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, have been in attendance in a symbolic show of Opposition unity towards the BJP forward of subsequent 12 months’s normal elections.

  6. Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states — Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan) and Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu (Himachal Pradesh) have been additionally current on the occasion.

  7. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, Telangana’s Okay Chandrashekar Rao, and Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav have been conspicuous by their absence from the mega occasion.

  8. G Parameshwara is a former Deputy Chief Minister and state Residence Minister. He was KPCC president in 2013 when Congress received. He’s the SC (proper) face of the social gathering in South Karnataka. KH Muniyappa is a seven-time MP, former Union Minister, and a powerful SC (left) face of the social gathering. Priyank Kharge, son of AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, is a four-time MLA and a high SC (proper) chief. Satish Jarkiholi belongs to the highly effective Jharkhioli household in Belagavi. He’s additionally the ST face of the social gathering.

  9. Ramalinga Reddy is an eight-time MLA from Bengaluru and a strong metropolis face of the social gathering. KJ George is a former state Residence Minister and an vital metropolis chief of the Congress. He is without doubt one of the social gathering’s minority faces. BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan is taken into account near Mr Siddaramaiah. He’s one other minority face of the social gathering from Bengaluru metropolis. MB Patil was the Marketing campaign Committee Chief. He’s the Lingayat face of the social gathering and hails from the Mumbai Karnataka area.

  10. Karnataka Governor Thawarchand Gehlot administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to the elected representatives on the swearing-in ceremony at Bengaluru’s Kanteerava Stadium. Mr Siddaramaiah has turn out to be the Chief Minister for the second time after his earlier five-year stint from 2013 to 2018. 61-year-old DK Shivakumar, who had earlier labored as Minister beneath Mr Siddaramaiah, will even proceed because the social gathering’s Karnataka state president until Parliamentary elections are over subsequent 12 months.

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