H D Kumaraswamy to take oath as Karnataka CM on Wednesday

Bengaluru: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy will take oath of office on Wednesday, amid the presence of leaders from the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the BSP, the TDP and others.
The oath ceremony was earlier planned for Monday but it was changed due to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s death anniversary.
On Thursday, the assembly speaker will be chosen.
Earlier, the three-day political drama came to an end after Chief Minister Yeddyurappa on Saturday walked out of the House without facing trust vote.
BJP’s inability to win the vote will have national implications and will boost the efforts of its rivals to form an anti-BJP national coalition ahead of next year’s general election. Signalling this, Kumaraswamy said that invitations for his inaugural would be extended to Mayawati of BSP, Tejaswi Yadav of RJD, Akhilesh Yadav of SP, Mamata Bannerjee of TMC, KC Rao of TRS and Chandrababu Naidu of TDP. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are invited.
Nonetheless, Karnataka will have the strongest opposition in decades in a 104-member strong BJP, it will consolidate the power of the Old Mysuru region in state politics as almost all the leaders of this combine are from this segment. They also tilt the balance in favour of the powerful Vokkaliga community to which both Kumaraswamy and Congress’s D K Shivakumar belong.