Karnataka government formation: K Chandrasekhar Rao to skip HD Kumaraswamy's swearing-in on Wednesday
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Tuesday he would not be attending the swearing-in ceremony of Janata Dal (Secular) leader and Karnataka chief minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy.
Bengaluru/Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Tuesday he would not be attending the swearing-in ceremony of Janata Dal (Secular) leader and Karnataka chief minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy. "Due to prior engagements, I will not be attending the swearing-in ceremony. I extend my good wishes and congratulations to the JD-S leaders", Rao told reporters in Bengaluru.
File image K Chandrashekhar Rao. AFP
The Telangana chief minister, who arrived in Bengaluru on Tuesday evening, met Kumaraswamy and JD(S) supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda at the latter's residence in Padmanabhanagar in the city's southwest suburb. A leader of a regional party like JD(S) becoming the chief minister indicates the power of regional outfits, said KCR, as Rao is popularly known.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief along with some other party leaders arrived in Bengaluru from Hyderabad in a special aircraft on Tuesday evening. KCR would be returning to the Telangana capital on Tuesday night itself to attend to his engagements, a statement from the Chief Minister's Office said. He was among the invitees for the swearing-in to be held on Wednesday at 4.30 pm.
Kumaraswamy will be sworn in as the chief minister by Governor Vajubhai Vala in front of the state secretariat (Vidhana Soudha) in Bengaluru in the presence of several national leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and around one lakh people.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu are among the other leaders invited by the JD(S) state president to take part in the event.
KCR, who declared his party's support to the JD(S) ahead of the 12 May Karnataka Assembly election, had appealed to the Telugu people living in Karnataka to vote for the JD(S). This is the second time Kumaraswamy, the third son of Deve Gowda, will be the Karnataka chief minister, 12 years after the JD(S) formed a coalition government with the BJP on 4 February, 2006, and he occupied the office for 20 months.
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