Congress has also invited Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik along with Hemant Soren, MK Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav, Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav, National Conference chiefs Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah for the oath ceremony. .
After the announcement of the names of Siddaramaiah for the post of CM and DK Shivakumar for the post of Deputy CM in Karnataka, preparations have started for the swearing in of the Congress government. The party has started preparations in full swing for the oath ceremony to be held in Bengaluru on Saturday, May 20 at 12.30 pm. Along with Congress leaders from across the country, invitations are also being extended to opposition leaders to attend the event.
Karnataka Congress has invited Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi for Siddaramaiah’s swearing-in ceremony. Along with these, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Himachal Pradesh Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin have also been invited.
Apart from these, the Congress has fielded West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, National Conference chiefs Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah from Odisha. K CM Naveen Patnaik has also been invited.
Congress general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal said in a statement that the Congress is inviting all allies and like-minded party leaders to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah. Let us tell you that in the results of May 13, the Congress has won a landslide victory in Karnataka, evicting the BJP from power. The party has won 135 out of 224 seats. BJP could win only 66 seats, while JDS got only 19 seats.