Karnataka Assembly Session for 3 days from Monday May 22

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the Assembly session will be convened for three days from May 22, during which the newly elected MLAs will be administered oath, and a new Speaker will be elected. Karnataka Assembly Session 3 days From Monday May 22.

CM Siddaramaiah was sworn in as Chief Minister for the second term, along with state Congress president DK Shivakumar as Deputy Chief Minister, and eight legislators as Ministers today, exactly a week after the party swept the Assembly polls in Karnataka. “We are calling the Assembly session for three days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

We are requesting the Governor, because the new Assembly has to be constituted before May 24. Senior most MLA RV Deshpande has been requested to be the Protem Speaker, to administer oaths to MLAs,” Siddaramaiah said.

Siddaramaiah, flanked by D K Shivakumar, promised to come out with complete details of the financial implications at the next cabinet meeting after the first brief 3-day session of the State Assembly from Monday as the new house needs to be constituted by May 24.  He said the tentative calculations indicated that the total financial burden of implementing the 5 Guarantees will be around Rs 50,000 crore.

Which can be definitely implemented by the State, which has an annual budget size of Rs 3.15 lac crore. Siddaramaiah utilized the occasion of his first media interaction at Vidhana Soudha after the cabinet meeting to present a financial picture of the State’s tax mobilization and the ‘injustice’ done to Karnataka by the Narendra Modi government in the devolution of funds.

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Talking about the Congress guarantees, which were criticised by BJP leaders including its chief minister Basavaraj Bommai as ‘fake guarantees’ and the Prime Minister as also home minister Amit Shah for their tirade against the guarantees as ‘unimplementable’, Siddaramaiah dismissed the BJP claims as ‘totally false’ and asserted that his government will deliver on the guarantees come what may.

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