The cabinet headed by newly elected Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday gave ‘in principle’ approval to all the five ‘guarantees’ promised by the Congress during the pre-poll campaign. In the first meeting of the cabinet after the swearing-in ceremony on Saturday. siddaramaiah cabinet Issued orders to implement the five guarantees given by the party before the elections.
“All will be implemented after the next cabinet meeting, which will be called within a week,” the newly-sworn-in chief minister told reporters in Bengaluru. Newly formed government in Karnataka.
will provide financial support to the scheme 2,000 per month to every female head of household in Karnataka.
The five main guarantees include-
-200 units free electricity to all households (Griha Jyoti)
, 2,000 monthly assistance to the female head of each household (griha lakshmi)
10 kg rice free to each member of BPL family (Anna Bhagya)
, 3,000 per month for unemployed graduate youth and 1,500 for unemployed diploma holders (both in the age group 18-25) for two years (Yuva Nidhi)
Free travel for women in public transport buses (Uchita Prayana).
Addressing a press conference after the first cabinet meeting at Vidhana Soudha here, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah Said, “Five guarantees were promised in the manifesto and the order to implement those five guarantees was given after the first cabinet meeting. All will be implemented after the next cabinet meeting which will be called within a week.”
The session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly is to be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
Earlier in the day, eight Congress MLAs took oath as ministers in the Karnataka cabinet during a swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru on Saturday.
Congress President Mallikarjun KhargeThe eight MLAs include his son Priyank Kharge, party MLAs G Parameshwara and MB Patil.
Other MLAs who took oath include KH Muniyappa, KJ George, Satish Jarkiholi, Ramalinga Reddy and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan.
ahead of the ceremony, Rahul GandhiMe, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah were seen holding each other’s hands in the air as a show of strength and unity.
The Congress won 135 seats in the elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly on 10 May, leaving the ruling BJP with 66 seats, while the Janata Dal (Secular) secured 19 seats in the results declared on 13 May.
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