Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar would take oath at 12.30 pm on Saturday at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru.After a week long tussle between the Congress’ two key leaders, Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar on the chief minister’s post after the party recorded a landslide victory in Karnataka assembly elections, chief minister-designate Siddaramaiah, his deputy D K Shivakumar and around 28 ministers will be sworn in at 12:30 pm in Bengaluru’ Kanteerava Stadium today.Sources said that 20 to 25 ministers could take oath on Saturday. “In our first cabinet meeting, we will implement our five guarantees… We will do our job with unity…It’s not DK Shivakumar’s guarantee or Siddaramaiah’s guarantee, it’s the Congress party’s guarantee, we will fulfil that,” said DK Shivakumar.
Some prominent names included former Karnataka Congress chief and ex-deputy chief minister G Parameshwara, Lingayat leader M B Patil, senior Congressman and former minister KJ George, they said. Priyank Kharge, the son of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Roopa Shashidhar, the daughter of former Union minister K H Muniyappa, Karnataka Congress working president Eshwara Khandre, former minister Tanveer Sait, senior leader Krishna Byre Gowda and Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council B K Hariprasad are among the names considered, the sources said.The reason for the lobbying was the announcement made by Congress general secretary KC Venugopal in New Delhi that al
The oath-taking of the Congress government in Karnataka is set to be a stage for opposition unity, with the presence of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin, and several other leaders from the non-BJP bloc.
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel reaches Bengaluru to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Karnataka cabinet on Saturday.
They have been told that all regions should get representation and special care should be taken of the communities which have supported the party in big way,” another senior Congress leader said, pointing at the support given by Lingayat, BJP traditional vote-bank, Dalits and Muslims in the Congress victory.

Amid reports of him being upset over the denial of the deputy chief ministerial post, Karnataka Congress MLA G Parameshwara on Friday said that it is time to forget the “individual aspirations” as the “party is supreme” for him.