Today at 12:30 pm, Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar will be sworn in, at Bengaluru with other leaders of the opposition parties in attendance .
The first list of MLAs who have been appointed to the state Cabinet is made public by the Congress ahead of today’s swearing-in event in Bengaluru for Siddaramaiah, the chief minister-designate of Karnataka, and D K Shivakumar, who will serve as his deputy chief minister. G Parameshwara, K H Muniyappa, K J George, M B Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Priyank Kharge, Ramalinga Reddy, and B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan are expected to be the next ministers.
Several like-minded Opposition parties were directly invited to the occasion by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. Along with several other top Congress officials, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, as well as General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi.