Karnataka Government Formation LIVE Updates: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, Deputy CM DK Shivakumar and Governor Thawarchand Gehlot at the swearing-in ceremony of Congress MLAs in Bengaluru (Twitter/@INCKarnataka)Karnataka Cabinet Swearing-in Ceremony Highlights: A week after assuming power in Karnataka, 24 ministers were inducted into the newly elected Siddaramaiah-led Congress government Cabinet in Bengaluru. The oath-taking ceremony took place in the presence of
The Cabinet expansion, which was finalised after a lot of back and forth on the choice of ministers, released by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah last night, following his return from Delhi. MLAs H K Patil, Krishna Byregowda, N Cheluvarayaswamy, K Venkatesh, H C Mahadevappa, Congress working president Eshwar Khandre and former state Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao are among those who be inducted into the Cabinet today.
The list of ministers consists of eight Lingayats, including sole woman minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar; seven from Scheduled Caste (SC) communities; five Vokkaligas; two Muslims; three from Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities; six from Other Backward Classes (OBC) groups, including one Maratha; one Brahmin, one Christian, and one Jain. The government will then have 34 ministers, which is inclusive of ten ministers, who, along with Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, were sworn-in on May 20.
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Former Karnataka CM S Bangarappa's son Madhu Bangarappa takes oath as minister in the Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet. He is a two-time MLA and a first-time Congress MLA. He belongs to the OBC Ediga community.
Sedam MLA Sharanprakash Patil, a Lingayat MLA, takes oath as minister in the Siddaramaiah Cabinet. He is a doctor by profession and was formerly a minister for medical education in Karnataka. He is considered to be a close associate of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
Kanakagiri MLA Shivaraj Tangadagi took his oath as a minister in Siddaramaiah-led Karnatak Cabinet. He is part of the Scheduled Caste Bhovi community and a close associate of CM Siddaramaiah.
Five-time MLA from Shahapu, Sharanabasappa Darshanapur, a Lingayat leader, takes oath as minister in the presence of CM Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar and Governor Thawarchand Gehlot. Darshanapur is a former Janata Dal MLA and has been a minister twice in the past.
Former Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao takes oath as a minister in the CM Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet in Karnataka. Rao, an MLA from the Gandhi Nagar constituency in the state, is the only Brahmin in the 34-member Cabinet. He is a close associate of CM Siddaramaiah.
K N Rajanna, former president of the Tumkur district Cooperative Bank, and three-time Congress MLA took oath as a minister in the Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet. He took his oath in the name of the saints Valmiki, Basavanna and BR Ambedkar.
Former minister H C Mahadevappa, a Dalit leader and an MLA from the T Narsipur constituency, takes oath as minister in the Congress Cabinet in Karnataka. Mahadevappa is a doctor by qualification and served as a health minister in the earlier Congress government.
Former JDS leader N Cheluvaraya Swamy, who joined the Congress in 2018 took his oath as a minister in the Siddaramaiah-led Congress Cabinet in Karnataka for the first time. Swamy belongs to the Vokkaliga community.
Three-time minister Krishna Byregowda takes oath as a minister at the Raj Bhawan. Byregowda is from the Vokkaliga community.
Senior Congress leader H K Patil took an oath as minister in the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka. Patil, who is from the Namdhari Reddy community, is an MLA from the Gadag constituency.
A week after assuming power in Karnataka, the swearing-in ceremony of 24 Congress MLAs into the state Cabinet has begun. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his deputy DK Shivakumar, and Governor Thawarchand Gehlot arrived at the Vidhan Soudha a short while ago. Watch the swearing-in ceremony LIVE here:
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar arrived at the Vidhan Soudha in Bengaluru to attend the swearing-in ceremony of 24 Congress MLAs.
Before the Siddaramaiah-led Congress Karnataka government was sworn in on Saturday, a television debate took the rare turn of discussing the question of the state missing out on a Dalit chief minister once again. With the state never having had a Dalit CM, the debate veered to the topic of whether political parties were going by the caste playbook in keeping Dalits away from the post or whether Dalit leaders were not strong enough politically to stake claim.
While there has been a demand from Dalit communities in Karnataka to appoint one of their own as CM, the Congress, the BJP, and the Janata Dal (Secular) have passed up many opportunities to fulfil the demand and preferred to stick to the members of more dominant castes that seem far more united. Johnson TA reports
Laxmi Hebbalkar is the only woman in the 34-member Cabinet. Hebbalkar, who is the spokesperson for the Karnataka Congress Pradesh Committee (KPCC), won from the Belagavi Rural constituency in the May 13 elections.
Supporters of Congress leader Rudrappa Lamani are protesting outside the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) demanding a ministerial post for the MLA, news agency ANI reported. Lamani won the Assembly elections from Haveri. Lamani was not part of the list of ministers, likely to be inducted at 11:45 am, released by the Congress Friday night.
Speaking to ANI, a supporter of Lamani said, "Our banjara community leader Rudrappa Lamani's name was there on the list till last night, but today we saw that his name was not there on the list. If our leader will not get the Ministerial post, we will protest against this because we gave our 75 % vote to Congress in the election, so there should be at least one leader from our community".
Ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of 24 Ministers in the Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka Cabinet at 11:45 am today, Bengaluru Police has announced traffic restrictions across the city. Have a look:
? Traffic from KR Circle to Gopal Gowda will be closed and Vehicles will be diverted to Nrupathunga Road or inside Cubbon Park.
? Traffic Coming from Queen’s Road at Balekundri Circle will be diverted & will not be allowed towards the coffee board & Police Thimmaiah Circle.
? Rajbhavna Road from Police Thimmaiha Circle to Basaveshwara Circle Will Be closed.
? All BMTC Buses from Shivaji Nagara bus stand going towards Police Thimmaih will be diverted to Queens Circle & Siddalingaih Circle.
? Buses & Goods Vehicles from Old high ground Jn towards Rajbhavan & Coffee Board will not be allowed.
Out of the 24 ministers who will be inducted into the Karnataka Cabinet at 11:45 am today, five of them are from the Vokkaligas community.
Who are they?
? Krishna Byregowda
? N Cheulvarayaswamy
? K Venkatesh
? Dr MC Sudhakar
DK Shivakumar, who was sworn in on May 20, is also from the Vokkaliga community.
Social historian and political commentator Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi on takeaways from the Karnataka Assembly election results, why entrepreneurs have joined politics and how Hindutva was blunted. The session was moderated by National Opinion Editor Vandita Mishra.
On whether the verdict was a surprise
I was very surprised because we were expecting a much closer election. Though the Congress had the momentum for the last six to eight months, the extent of its victory and the way in which it managed to cobble together a social coalition in four out of the six regions have come as a surprise. Even in other regions, especially in Bengaluru, it has done reasonably well. It’s only in the coastal regions, which are a traditional stronghold of the BJP, that they fared badly. Read here
Out of the 24 ministers who will be inducted into the Karnataka Cabinet at 11:45 am today, eight of them are from the Lingayat community.
Who are they?
? Lakshmi Hebbalkar (Belagavi Rural MLA, Panchamasali sub-caste)
? Shivananand Patil (Basavana Bagewadi, Panchamasali)
? Eshwar Khandre (Bhalki, Banajiga sub-caste)
? Sharan Prakash Patil (Sedam, Adi Banajiga)
? Sharanabasappa Darshanapur (Shahapur, Reddy Lingayat)
? S S Mallikarjun (Davangere North, Sadar Lingayat)
Among the highlights of the final few sessions of the 15th Karnataka Assembly, which has been replaced by a new Assembly following the May 10 elections, was the performance of Deputy Leader of the Opposition U T Khader, the Congress MLA from Mangalore and a former Health Minister.
Calm and composed, 53-year-old Khader is the son of former Congress leader and state minister U T Fareed who used to represent the erstwhile Ullal constituency, now the Mangalore Assembly constituency. Read here
Close to 24 Congress MLAs will take oath as ministers into the Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka Cabinet. Here is the full list:
? HK Patil (Namdhari Reddy)
? Krishna Byregowda (Vokkaliga)
? N Cheulvarayaswamy (Vokkaliga)
? K Venkatesh (Vokkaliga)
? Dr H C Mahadevappa (SC)
? Eshwar Khandre (Lingayat)
? Kyathasandra N Rajanna (ST)
? Dinesh Gundu Rao (Brahmin)
? Sharanabasappa Darshanapur (Lingayat)
? Shivanand Patil (Lingayat)
? Tinnapur Ramappa Balappa (SC)
? SS Mallikarjun (Lingayat)
? Tangadagi Shivaraj Sangappa (SC)
? Dr Sharanaprakash Rudrappa Patil (Lingayat)
? Mankal Vaidya (OBC)
? Lakshmi Hebbalkar (Lingayat)
? Rahim Khan (Muslim)
? D. Sudhakar (OBC/Jain)
? Santosh S Lad (OBC)
? NS Boseraju (OBC)
? Suresha BS (OBC)
? Madhu Bangarappa (OBC)
? Dr MC Sudhakar (Vokkaliga)
? B Nagendra (SC/ST)
24 ministers including HR Patil, Krishna Byregowda, and K Venkatesh will be inducted into the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet today. The oath-taking ceremony will take place in Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.
A week assuming power in Karnataka, the newly-elected Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has scheduled the swearing-in ceremony of its state Cabinet comprising 24 ministers at 11:45 am today. The oath-taking ceremony will take place at the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.
Good morning! Welcome to today's live blog. A total of 24 ministers will be inducted into the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet. Stay tuned for the latest on this!