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The time began with a bid of symbolic governmental gestures for the recently sworn-in Chief MInister D.K. Shivakumar. It came crossed arsenic overmuch idiosyncratic arsenic political. The archetypal fewer hours of his greeting were spent making telephone calls to the shortlisted MLAs who were to beryllium sworn successful with him.
Before leaving for the venue, helium sought the blessings of his mother. Family members played a disposable relation down the scenes. His girl Aishwarya and member D.K. Suresh personally monitored arrangements and coordinated with organisers arsenic guests began arriving successful ample numbers.
The caller Chief Minister chose to instrumentality oath successful accepted silk attire — a silk panche, jhubba and stole — reflecting Kannada taste symbolism.
Political differences aside
Setting speech governmental differences, Mr. Shivakumar personally called connected erstwhile Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and erstwhile Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda to invitation them to the ceremony.
The sojourn to Mr. Deve Gowda’s residence attracted peculiar attraction fixed the Congress leader’s long-standing governmental rivalry with the JD(S) successful the Old Mysore region.
After gathering Mr. Yediyurappa, Mr. Shivakumar struck a conciliatory note. “They person guided the State, they person worked for the State and they person contributed to the State. All of america person to enactment together,” helium said.
Welcoming Congress leadership
The beingness of the Congress precocious bid added to the value of the occasion. While Mr. Shivakumar called connected outgoing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to personally invitation him, helium drove to the HAL airdrome to person Congress person Rahul Gandhi and AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and accompanied them to the venue.
The accomplishment of the leaders triggered large cheers from enactment workers gathered extracurricular the airdrome and on the way to Lok Bhavan. Mr. Gandhi and AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal greeted Mr. Shivakumar with lukewarm hugs.
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Shivakumar said Congress person Sonia Gandhi wished him implicit the phone. “I person assured her that I volition instrumentality everyone together,” helium told reporters later.
Chief Ministers from Congress-ruled States — Telangana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala — were besides contiguous astatine the ceremony, underlining the nationalist value attached to the lawsuit by the party.
While supporters gathered adjacent his location from the greeting to privation and greet him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister and JD(S) person H.D. Kumaraswamy wished Mr. Shivakumar soon aft the second assumed office.
A gathering of faiths
One of the striking features of the ceremonial was the beingness of much than 50 seers and spiritual leaders representing antithetic faiths and traditions. The gathering included Hindu seers, Muslim ulemas, Christian priests and representatives of different spiritual communities.
Before the ceremony, Mr. Shivakumar greeted galore of them personally with flowers and garlands and sought their blessings. He besides took the blessings of erstwhile Chief Minister S.M. Krishna’s wife, Infosys laminitis Narayana Murthy and his woman Sudha Murthy.
