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The newly elected CM Siddaramaiah-led cabinet on Saturday gave ‘in principle’ approval to all five ‘guarantees’ promised by the Congress during their pre-poll campaign. In the first cabinet meeting held after the swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, the Siddharamaiah cabinet issued orders for the implementation of five guarantees which were promised by the party before the elections.
“All will be in force after next cabinet meeting which will be called within a week," the newly-sworn-in CM said to reporters in Bengaluru. CM Siddharamaiah issued orders to implement Gruha Lakshmi scheme after the first meeting of the state Cabinet of the newly-formed government in Karnataka.
The scheme will provide financial assistance of ₹2,000 a month to every woman head of household in Karnataka.
The five main guarantees include-
-200 units of free power to all households (Gruha Jyoti)
- ₹2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi)
-10 kg of rice free to every member of a BPL household (Anna Bhagya)
- ₹3,000 every month for unemployed graduate youth and ₹1,500 for unemployed diploma holders (both in the age group of 18-25) for two years (Yuva Nidhi)
-Free travel for women in public transport buses (Uchita Prayana).
Addressing a press briefing after the first Cabinet meeting in Vidhan Soudha, here, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said, "Five guarantees in the manifesto were promised and the order for the implementation of those five guarantees was given after the first cabinet meeting. All will be in force after the next cabinet meeting which will be called within a week."
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly session is to be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, next week.
Earlier in the day, as many as eight Congress MLAs were sworn in as ministers in the Karnataka Cabinet during the oath-taking ceremony in Bengaluru on Saturday.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank Kharge, party's MLAs G Parameshwara and MB Patil were among the eight MLAs.
The other MLAs who took oath included KH Muniyappa, KJ George, Satish Jarkiholi, Ramalinga Reddy and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan.
Ahead of the ceremony, Rahul Gandhi, Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah were seen holding each other's hands in the air as a show of strength and unity.
Congress bagged 135 seats in the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ousting the ruling BJP, which got 66 seats while the Janata Dal (Secular) secured 19 seats in the results declared on May 13.
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