Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony as a “celebration of corruption”, says BJP
Kumaraswamy is sworn in as Karnataka CM and G Parameshwara as deputy CM amid a grand show of opposition unity at the venue in Bengaluru.
Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said “Leaders who came from all over country wanted to give a message to the nation that we are one and in 2019 there will be a major change in political situation, they were not here to protect this government, this government will be protected by local Congress leaders and our leaders,”
The BJP, on its part, slammed the Congress-JD(S) combine as an “opportunistic alliance” and described the presence of a host of opposition leaders at Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony as a “celebration of corruption”.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had campaigned extensively for the BJP before the Karnataka assembly polls, took to Twitter to congratulate Kumaraswamy on taking oath as the chief minister.
I congratulate Shri @hd_kumaraswamy Ji and @DrParameshwara Ji on taking oath as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. My best wishes for their tenure ahead.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 23, 2018
“I congratulate H D Kumaraswamy ji and Dr G Parameshwara ji on taking oath as chief minister and deputy chief minister of Karnataka. My best wishes for their tenure ahead,” he tweeted.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi, his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, N Chandrababu Naidu, Arvind Kejriwal and Pinarayi Vijayan — her counterparts in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Kerala respectively — were in attendance at the ceremony.
BSP supremo Mayawati and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who had formed an alliance during by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, were seen sitting next to each other. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and NCP chief Sharad Pawar were among the high-powered guests who shared a dais during the oath-taking ceremony.
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