Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, eight Cabinet Ministers and former Chief Ministers Basavaraj Bommai were among the prominent newly-elected MLAs to take oath as members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on May 22.
The first session of the 16 th Legislative Assembly, after the Siddaramaiah-led government came to power in Karnataka, began on May 22 to enable all the newly-elected members to take the oath of office.
Earlier in the day, Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath to R.V. Deshpande as pro-tem speaker of the House at the Raj Bhavan. Mr. Deshpande is the seniormost and 9-term member of the House. Later, he chaired the session.