Bengaluru: The Karnataka designated new Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to take swear-in ceremony as Chief Minister at 12.30 pm in Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday.

Along with Siddaramaiah, KPCC Chief DK Siva Kumar will take oath as only one Deputy Chief Minister. Other Ministers of the cabinet also will take oath today itself. The designated CM and Deputy CM of Karnataka are invited a more number of like minded party leaders and other State Chief Ministers for swear-in ceremony.

They also invited Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra and AICC Chief Mallikarjun Kharge as special invites to the ceremony. The invited CMs are Mamatha Banerjee from West Bengal, Hemanth Soren, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and his Deputy Tejaswi Yadav, former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, CPI and CPM General Secretaries D. Raja and Yechuri Sitaram, NC leader Farooq Abdullah, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot also invited.