Five guarantees will be passed in the cabinet meeting, and an order to implement them will be issued today," Siddaramaiah said shortly after taking the oath.
Digital Desk: After completing formalities at a big gathering
in Bengaluru attended by approximately 15,000 supporters, Congress leader
Siddaramaiah effectively took charge as Karnataka's new Chief Minister today.
He pledged to fulfil 'five assurances' within the next few hours.
Here are 10 important points that should be taken into account:
1. Siddaramaiah stated
that his government will issue an order to implement the five 'guarantees' made
by the party prior to the elections. "We will provide the administration
that the people have come to expect from us." "Five guarantees will
be passed in the cabinet meeting, and an order to implement them will be issued
today," Siddaramaiah said shortly after taking the oath.
2. DK Shivakumar, the
Karnataka Congress president who had been embroiled in a spectacular battle
with Siddaramaiah for the top job for a week following their party's resounding
victory, took oath as the sole Deputy Chief Minister.
3. Former Congress President
Rahul Gandhi, who attended the ceremony with his sister and the party's
national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, ascended the stage to
underline that his party would follow through on the five promises it made. A
decision will be made during the first cabinet meeting, which he stated will
take place in a few hours.
4. "After Congress's
victory, many things were written about how Congress won this election, and
different analyses were done, but I want to say that Congress won because we
stood backward with the poor, Dalits, and Adivasis." We had the truth,
poor people. The BJP has money, police, and everything, but the
people of Karnataka defeated all of their powers," Rahul Gandhi stated,
adding that his party will provide a clean, non-corrupt government to the
state.
5. G Parameshwara, KH
Muniyappa, KJ George, MB Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Priyank Kharge, Ramalinga
Reddy, and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan, eight freshly elected MLAs with diverse
representation, authorized by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge this
morning, also took the oath of office. Portfolios have not yet been issued to
them.
6. Top Opposition leaders
in attendance included Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, CPI's D Raja, Bihar
Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, PDP's Mehbuba Mufti, NCP's Sharad
Pawar, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference's Farooq Abdullah, Jharkhand
Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav (RJD).
7. Chief Ministers from
Congress-ruled states, including Chhattisgarh's Bhupesh Baghel, Rajasthan's
Ashok Gehlot, and Himachal Pradesh's Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, were also present.
8. The absence of West
Bengal President Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Delhi counterpart Arvind
Kejriwal, Telangana's K Chandrashekar Rao, and Samajwadi Party president
Akhilesh Yadav from the huge event was notable.
9. At the swearing-in
ceremony at Bengaluru's Kanteerava Stadium, Karnataka Governor Thawarchand
Gehlot administered the oath of office and secrecy to the elected legislators.
Mr. Siddaramaiah has been elected Chief Minister for the second time, following
a five-year tenure from 2013 to 2018. DK Shivakumar, 61, who previously served
as Minister under Mr. Siddaramaiah, would also serve as the party's Karnataka
state president until the Parliamentary elections next year.
10. In the Karnataka
Assembly elections on May 10, the Congress won 135 seats, an increase of 55
seats over its previous tally of 80 in 2018. With 66 seats, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) suffered a severe loss, losing 38 seats from its previous
total of 104. Janata Dal (Secular), with just 19, lost almost 50% of its seats
from the 2018 tally of 37 seats.
