Several leaders of opposition parties and senior Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Kamal Nath were present at the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah as Karnataka CM.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, MNM chief Kamal Haasan and former Jammu & Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah were present, the sources said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, however, was conspicuous by her absence at the event at Sree Kanteerava Stadium