NEWS: Karnataka’s New Cabinet Sworn Oath in Name of God, Gaumata & Farmers

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The newly formed Chief Minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai led cabinet took oath as ministers.

The oath taking ceremony took place at Raj Bhawan in Bangaluru on Wednesday, in presence of Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot.

A total of 29 BJP legislators took the oath and, interestingly, several of them did so in the name of Gods, and Gaumata, and Farmers. Whereas some ministers took oath in the name of Vijayanagara Virupaksha and Thaayi Bhuvaneshwari (a revered goddess in Karnataka).

Last week B.S Yediyurappa resigned from his post as Chief Minister of Karnataka.

This is not the first time that ministers have taken a different approach from the traditional practice while taking the oath. In month May, DMK chief MK Stalin had taken oath in the ‘name of conscience’ while being sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. In 2020, too, Delhi Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet member Gopal Rai had taken oath in the name of martyrs of the freedom struggle. Rajendra Pal Gautam, who was the social welfare minister in the previous Kejriwal dispensation, had done the same in the name of Buddha.