Bengaluru, Jan 15: Senior Karnataka Advocate K.M Nataraj was appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of the Supreme Court on Monday.

Union Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs issued an order on Monday and said the order would come into force with immediate effect. With this appointment, Karnataka has got the post after 28 years.

Earlier, former Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde had worked as the Additional Solicitor General of the Supreme Court between 1989 and 1990. Currently, Nataraj was working as the Additional Solicitor General of South Zone and now, the central government has appointed him as the Supreme Court Additional Solicitor General.

He was appointed as the South Zone Additional Solicitor General on April 8, 2015.

Hailed from Ishwaramangala in Puttur taluk in Dakshina Kannada district, Nataraj has done his graduation from the SDM Law College and started his profession as an advocate under former Advocate General B.V Acharya in 1992.

Later, he started his profession independently in 1995. He has served as the Additional Advocate General of state government from 2009 to 2013. In 2012, he was appointed as the High Court senior advocate.

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New Delhi (PTI): Congratulating Rekha Gupta on taking oath as Delhi's chief minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said she has risen from the grassroots and expressed confidence that she will work for the city's development with full vigour.

A first-time BJP MLA, Gupta was sworn in as Delhi chief minister in a grand show of strength by the party which returned to power in the city after more than 26 years.

Soon after the swearing-in ceremony of the new Delhi government, Modi said in a congratulatory message, "She has risen from the grassroots, being active in campus politics, state organisation, municipal administration and now MLA as well as Chief Minister."

He added, "I am confident she will work for Delhi's development with full vigour. My best wishes to her for a fruitful tenure."

Along with Gupta, Parvesh Verma, Ashish Sood, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Kapil Mishra, Ravinder Indraj Singh, Kapil Mishra and Pankaj Singh were also administered the oath of office by Lt Governor V K Saxena.

Besides Modi, senior leaders of the BJP and its allies were present at the event in Ramlila Maidan.