Siddaramaiah sworn in as Karnataka Chief Minister in mega ceremony

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.

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.