BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai sworn-in as the CM of Karnataka

TIL Desk/National/Bengaluru/ BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai, a BSY confidante and home minister in the BS Yediyurappa cabinet was sworn in as the new Karnataka Chief Minister on Wednesday. The 61-year-old leader was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot at the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.

Ending the heightened suspense, the Karnataka BJP legislature party on Tuesday evening had elected Basavaraj Bommai as its new leader to succeed outgoing Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa. The decision to appoint Bommai was announced by BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan last evening. The move follows a BJP legislature party meeting, which was held earlier in Bengaluru yesterday

Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and G Kishan Reddy, along with BJP general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh — the observers from the BJP central leadership –attended the legislature party meeting. “The new leader proposal was made by senior leader B S Yediyurappa and was supported by Govind Karjol, R Ashok, K S Eshwarappa, B Sriramulu, S T Somashekar, Poornima Srinivas, and the newly elected legislature party leader and new Chief Minister will be Basavaraj Bommai,” Pradhan said after the meeting.