During his inaugural speech as the newly sworn Karnataka chief minister, Siddaramaiah pledged to provide the kind of administration that people anticipate. He further announced that the five poll guarantees would be approved during the Cabinet meeting and immediate measures would be taken to implement them on the same day.
Siddaramaiah said, “We will give administration people expect from us, the five guarantees will be passed in Cabinet meeting & order will be issued to implement them today itself.”
Veteran Congress leader Siddaramaiah was sworn in as the next Chief Minister of Karnataka at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru today.
75-year-old Siddaramaiah is a backwards-class leader with over five decades of political experience and he is considered one of the mass leaders of the southern state.
“I am confident that we can implement the guarantees without pushing the state into a debt trap,” Siddaramaiah said in a press conference after the first meeting of the state cabinet.
“To implement these promises we need approx Rs 50000 crore,” he said.
KPCC president D K Shivakumar took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister. Congress MLAs including G Parameshwara, K H Muniyappa, K J George, M B Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Priyank Kharge, Ramalinga Reddy, and B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan too sworn in as Ministers in the Siddaramaiah Cabinet.
The swearing-in ceremony took place in the presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, former chief Rahul Gandhi and several Congress leaders.
Top Opposition leaders, including 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 National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechury, and actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan, were in attendance in a symbolic display of Opposition unity against the Hindutva party ahead of next year’s general elections.
