Kumaraswamy along with his Deputy and Pradesh Congress Committee chief G Parameshwara met Governor Vajubhai Vala at Raj Bhavan to discuss the dates for the swearing-in of the new ministers.
Ahead of his Delhi visit to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other union ministers, he reiterated that farm loan waiver was his priority as he had promised and he would resign if he failed to fulfill it.
In a dramatic turn of events, the BJP MLAs staged a walkout from the Assembly minutes ahead of the floor test.
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy was sworn-in as Karnataka chief minister at a grand ceremony attended by a galaxy of top leaders and regional satraps in a rare public show of unity perceived as a possible harbinger of a broad-based anti-BJP alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year.
Mamata Banerjee said they would not leave any scope for any party to place obstacles in the coming together of regional parties.
Unfazed by the fall of its 3-day government last week in Karnataka, a defiant BJP's state unit will protest across the state against the formation of the alliance government.
Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Kumaraswamy took oath as Karnataka chief minister on Wednesday. Congress' G Parameshwara took oath as the deputy CM of the state.
HD Kumaraswamy oath taking ceremony today, Kejriwal, Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and others to attend the event
Congress party's point person for alliance DK Shivakumar today told ANI that he had a bitter history with the new alliance partners but 'had to swallow all bitterness' in the interest of a secure government in the state.
The Congress, which won 78 seats in comparison to Kumaraswamy's party's 38, will get the lion's share of the ministries, although the portfolios are yet to be worked out.
Clarifying that no discussion has taken place so far on the allocation of ministerial berths, Kumaraswamy termed reports on the power-sharing formula of 30 months each between the parties as "bogus".
Earlier reports had emerged about his party working out a power sharing formula of heading the government for 30 months each, with its coalition partner the Congress.
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka Lokayukta Police has filed FIRs against former Chief Ministers B S Yeddyurappa and H D Kumaraswamy in a land denotificaton case, charging them under the Prevention of Corruption Act and several IPC
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