HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony postponed
Bengaluru: While HD Kumaraswamy had earlier said that he would be taking the oath as the Chief Minister at Kanteerava Stadium on Monday morning, now the swearing-in ceremony has reportedly been postponed.
It was almost confirmed that Kumaraswamy would be taking oath as Chief Minister on Monday. But as the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi is falling on Monday, most of the Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi would not be able to participate in the swearing-in ceremony. In this regard, Kumaraswamy and Congress leaders talked, and HDK agreed to postpone the oath-taking program to Wednesday. Now, Kumaraswamy is scheduled to be sworn-in as Chief Minister on Wednesday.
However; on Wednesday, only Kumaraswamy and Dr. G. Parameshwara will take oath as the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively. After proving the majority, cabinet ministers will be taking the oath. All these processes will take 4 to 5 days until then both the parties have been instructed not to allow their respective MLAs to leave the hotel.
Meanwhile, Siddaramaiah has been elected president of the Congress-JDS's new government coordination committee. All the major decisions of this government are expected to be taken in this committee. It has been reported that the new government will have 17 to 20 Congress ministers and 13 to 15 JDS ministers.
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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
