{"id":286921,"date":"2018-05-19T22:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286921"},"modified":"2018-05-19T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T17:05:28","slug":"hd-kumaraswamy-invited-to-form-government-in-karnataka-to-take-oath-as-cm-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hd-kumaraswamy-invited-to-form-government-in-karnataka-to-take-oath-as-cm-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"HD Kumaraswamy Invited To Form Government In Karnataka, To Take Oath As CM On Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kumaraswamy-tehelka.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-286922 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kumaraswamy-tehelka-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Kumaraswamy tehelka\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" data-id=\"286922\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy speaking to reporters on Saturday, declared that he would be taking oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka on Wednesday instead of Monday as Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s death anniversary is on Monday. Earlier after meeting Governor\u00a0Vajubhai Vala at the\u00a0Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru, he said, \u201cThe Governor has invited me to form the\u00a0government. The oath ceremony (as Chief Minister) will be held on Monday between 12 pm -1 pm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s death anniversary is on the same day, so it is not a proper date, now we are going to take oath on Wednesday,&#8221; Kumaraswamy said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JD(S) legislative leader Kumaraswamy, also stated that the Governor had given him 15 days to prove the majority in the 224-member legislative assembly. \u201cI have decided to form the JD-S-Congress government in the Kanteerva stadium,\u201d he said. \u201cWest Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana CM KC Rao congratulated me. Mayawati ji has also blessed me. I have invited all regional leaders for the oath ceremony. I\u2019ve also invited Sonia Gandhi ji and Rahul Gandhi ji personally,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa resigned as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, minutes before the scheduled trust vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy speaking to reporters on Saturday, declared that he would be taking oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka on Wednesday instead of Monday as Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s death anniversary is on Monday. Earlier after meeting Governor\u00a0Vajubhai Vala at the\u00a0Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru, he said, \u201cThe Governor has invited me to form the\u00a0government. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[1700,1343,453,1549,236,1569,1552,1472,1430,579,1701,1702,1703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}