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Bengaluru, May 20: Veteran Congress leader Siddaramaiah, and KPCC president D K Shivakumar were sworn in as the next Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru today. Congress MLAs including G Parameshwara, K H Munivappa, 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, reports the Indian Express.
The swearing-in ceremony saw took place in the presence of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and several Opposition party leaders including Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.
This comes after days of hectic parleys, post which the Congress named Siddaramaiah as the chief minister, Shivakumar his deputy. While Sidddaramaiah, 75, is a backwards-class leader with over five decades of political experience and is considered one of the three remaining mass leaders of the state, KPCC president DK Shivakumar, who hails from the Vokkaliga community, is seen as the architect behind the victory in Karnataka.
