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Karnataka Assembly First Session: After the formation of the new Congress government in Karnataka, the first session of the Assembly will be held in Bengaluru today (May 22). During this, the oath will be administered to the newly elected MLAs and the new Speaker will be elected. This session will run for three days (May 22-24). Senior Congress leader RV Deshpande will be the pro-tem Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly for the current session.
Congress leader Siddaramaiah was on Saturday (May 20) sworn in as Karnataka Chief Minister and DK Shivakumar as Deputy Chief Minister for the second time after the party’s landslide victory in the assembly elections. Eight Congress MLAs took oath as ministers in the Karnataka cabinet during the swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru. The swearing-in ceremony was attended by top leaders of the Congress party, including Gandhi family members Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, the party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge.
Congress’s five guarantees implemented
After taking oath as chief minister, Siddaramaiah said in the first meeting of the cabinet, orders have been issued to implement the five guarantees that the party had promised before the elections. Siddaramaiah said after the first cabinet meeting at Vidhan Soudha that five guarantees were promised in the manifesto and the order to implement those five guarantees was given after the first cabinet meeting. All will be implemented after the next cabinet meeting to be called within a week.
What are the five guarantees?
200 units of free electricity to all households (Griha Jyoti) under Congress’s ‘five guarantees’. Monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 to the female head of each family (Griha Lakshmi). 10 kg free rice to each member of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) family (Anna Bhagya). Rs 3,000 per month to unemployed graduate youth and Rs 1,500 to unemployed diploma holders (both in the 18-25 age group) for two years (Yuva Nidhi) and free travel for women in public transport buses (Shakti).
Indira canteen will start soon
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that according to preliminary estimates, Rs 50,000 crore would be required annually to fulfill the five-guarantees. Siddaramaiah said that information about Indira Canteen is also being taken and it will be started soon. The Chief Minister was confident about starting new programmes. This included not affecting the economy, taking strict measures regarding work efficiency in tax collection, controlling unnecessary expenditure, avoiding borrowing etc.
The Congress won 135 seats in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly elections on 10 May. BJP got 66 seats, while JDS got 19 seats in the results declared on 13 May.
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