Siddaramaiah took oath as Karnataka Chief Minister today with DK Shivakumar, who was sworn-in as the Deputy Chief Minister.

The oath was administered by Karnataka Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot at Sree Karanveera stadium in Bengaluru.

Congress after its landslide victory in Karnataka, wanted to make its oath-taking ceremony a mega event inviting all the top brass leaders from various opposition parties in the country sending a message of opposition unity.

The opposition leaders who attended the event displayed a unity of strength holding their hands at the stage.

The leaders who have attended the event include Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar, DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, JD(U) supremo and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, former J&K National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti,

The list of opposition leaders also include Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Bihar’s deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav, D Raja and Siataram Yechury from the left and also actor turned politician Kamal Hassan.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also sent out the invitation but she skipped the event as she already had other programs lined up.

Former Maharashtra Chief Minitser Uddhav Thackeray also received an invitation but failed to mark his attendance.

The leaders who were missed in the invitation list of the Congress are Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, BRS leader and his Telangana counterpart K Chandarasekhar Rao along with his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Jaganmohan Reddy.

Reports said, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also did not receive an invitation, it also claimed Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati were also not sent out any invitation.

The event was attended by Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, senior leaders Priyanka Gandhi, KC Venugopal and others.

Congress chief ministers Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel and Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu were also present at the swearing-in event.

Former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath was also in the list of guests.  

Siddaramaiah takes oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka for a second term at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru.

DK Shivakumar has also sworn-in as the Deputy Chief Minister.

The oath was administered by Karnataka Governor Thawarchand Gehlot.

The oath taking ceremony of the newly elected Congress government has been attended by party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge, former president Rahul Gandhi, senior leader Priyanka Gandhi and other senior leaders.

In the morning, Congress released the list of 8 ministers who will be taking the oath as the cabinet ministers in the newly elected government. The list of ministers include senior Karnataka Congress leader G Parameshwara and also Priyank Kharge, son of Mallikarjun Kharge.

As Congress forms its government in the fourth state, all chief ministers where the party is in ruling have attended the oath taking ceremony in Bengaluru.

Rajasthan Chief Ministyer Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu have made their attendance.

Several opposition leaders who were sent an invitation by Kharge to attend the ceremony are also present including NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Farooq Abdullah and other senior opposition party leaders.

The oath taking ceremony is being held exactly a week after the Karnataka results were declared, in which Congress won 135 seats out of the total 224 seats in the state.

After the victory, tensions within Congress flared up for days with the decision of whom should it name the next chief minister. Both Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar were on a tough race to sit on the Chief Minister’s chair.

It became difficult for the Congress to decide as Siddaramaiah already held the experience of running the state’s administration as the CM for a full term, while, Shivakumar is an energetic face of the party in the state who gave his sweat putting out all his efforts to make the party win with such a huge mandate.

On Friday, The Reserve Bank of India in a surprising move issued the order of withdrawal of Rs 2000 denomination notes from circulation as a part of Clean Note Policy.

After the news spread out, there was a havoc created among the general public with many assuming it as demonetization 2.O. Many after the decision thought whether the Rs 2000 note still holds a legal value or not.

In an official statement released by the RBI clearly stated that the notes are withdrawn from circulation but still remains a legal tender.

The Reserve Bank said, the existing notes with the holders can be exchanged/deposited in the banks by September 30, 2023.

Starting from May 23, 2023 people can deposit the notes in their bank account or exchange with any other denomination of smaller amounts. However, to avoid any affect to the normal bank activities, RBI has set a limit of Rs 20,000 deposit/exchange at a time.

The decision of RBI has flooded the Twitter with user reactions and hilarious memes since yesterday evening.

A user slamming the decision wrote 3,542.991 millions piece of ₹2000 currency was printed each at the cost of ₹4.58 which amounts to ₹1622 crores being wasted, the user asked  who is accountable for nation’s this huge loss?

Another confused user wrote, the BJP government while launching Rs 2000 said, it will end corruption, now again the government while its withdrawal says it is going to end corruption. The user said making a rhetoric comment said he is confused whether the BJP is trying to end corruption or the people of this country.

While some users shared some hilarious memes on the decision.

A user shared a scene from a daily soap Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah, while some shared scenes of some videos making fun of those who have Rs 2000 note with them.