{"id":314253,"date":"2019-07-26T14:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314253"},"modified":"2019-07-26T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:53:39","slug":"bjps-bs-yediyurappa-takes-oath-as-karnataka-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjps-bs-yediyurappa-takes-oath-as-karnataka-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s BS Yediyurappa takes oath as Karnataka chief minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314254 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/BS-Ved.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/BS-Ved.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/BS-Ved-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/BS-Ved-498x420.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP\u2019s BS Yediyurappa was on Friday sworn in as Chief Minister for the fourth time, three days after the collapse of 14-month-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTook oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka at Rajbhavan,\u201d\u00a0Yediyurappa tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day,\u00a0Yediyurappa\u00a0met Governor Vala to stake the claim and requested him to administer the oath of office and secrecy on Friday itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a tweet congratulated Yediyurappa on becoming the new Karnataka Chief Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongrats to @BSYBJP ji, newly sworn in CM of Karnataka. I am sure under his leadership and under the guidance of PM Modi, BJP will give a stable, pro-farmer and development oriented govt in the State. I assure people of Karnataka that BJP is committed to fulfil their aspirations,\u201d Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday lost the trust vote and the Congress-JD(S) coalition government collapsed in the Assembly. BJP defeated the coalition government by 105-99 votes in the floor test after a long intense power struggle in the Karnataka assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP\u2019s BS Yediyurappa was on Friday sworn in as Chief Minister for the fourth time, three days after the collapse of 14-month-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government. \u201cTook oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka at Rajbhavan,\u201d\u00a0Yediyurappa tweeted. Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to him. Earlier in the day,\u00a0Yediyurappa\u00a0met Governor Vala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[453,11666,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314253"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314255,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314253\/revisions\/314255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}