Bharat Express

Siddaramaiah

Siddaramaiah was scheduled to leave at 9.50 a.m., but due to his wife's health, he delayed his flight to Delhi by more than an hour, according to sources familiar with the situation.

The programme enables women and transgender people to ride for free in government buses throughout Karnataka, regardless of their age or socioeconomic status.

While announcing the provision of 200 units of free electricity, he also said that consumers who have not paid their bills until July will have to do so.

Other than Finance, Siddaramaiah also holds cabinet affairs and the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms

MLAs H K Patil, Krishna Byregowda, N Cheluvarayaswamy, K Venkatesh, H C Mahadevappa, Congress working president Eshwar Khandre, and former state Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao are among those who will take oath on Saturday noon.

Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar are departing separately for New Delhi today, where they are anticipated to meet with Congress high command and discuss cabinet expansion, and allocation of portfolios to existing ministers

After Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar returned to the nation's capital from Bengaluru to make their selections, the shortlist for the cabinet was created in New Delhi.

Both the leaders would take oath as the chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively along with a few ministers on Saturday at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru

Sources said Shivakumar finally agreed to be deputy CM after holding late night parleys with K C Venugopal.

Siddaramaiah to be Karnataka CM, DK Shivakumar deputy CM; swearing-in on May 20: Congress sources