Congress worker sprinkled cow urine and performed Pooja at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Monday, ahead of the first day proceedings of the Karnataka assembky session.
The session is being held on Monday, two days after senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah took oath as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, the first Legislative Assembly session in the southern state.
During the session, oaths will be administered to the newly elected MLAs and a new Speaker will be elected.
First session of 16th Karnataka Assembly begins
After the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government took power in the state, the first session of the 16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly began on Monday for the swearing in of all newly elected MLAs.
During the three-day session, which will also see the election of a new Speaker, officials in the Legislative Assembly say that all 224 newly elected legislators will take the oath of office as MLAs.
In the Assembly, the most senior legislator in Congress, R V Deshpande, is taking the oaths of MLAs as the acting Speaker.
After the party's crushing victory in the Assembly elections, Siddaramaiah was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second time last Saturday.
DK Shivakumar was officially sworn in as Karnataka's Deputy Chief Minister. During the oath-taking ceremony in Bengaluru, eight Congress MLAs were also sworn in as ministers in the Karnataka Cabinet.
According to the news agency ANI, shortly after Siddaramaiah was sworn in as the chief minister, he stated that the first Cabinet meeting had issued orders for the implementation of five guarantees that the party had promised prior to the elections.
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