“On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we are calling for the legislature. The pro tem speaker will administer the oaths to the new Assembly members. The term of the current legislature ends on May 24. In the same legislative session, we will elect a full-term speaker,” Siddaramaiah announced after the Cabinet meeting.

Following a days-long impasse over the CM chair in the southern state, prominent leaders of Opposition political parties converged on Bengaluru for the swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the new Deputy, D K Shivakumar.