Bengaluru: Just minutes after Siddharamaiah was sworn in as the Chief Minister and D.K. Shivakumar as Deputy Chief Minister, along with eight others as Cabinet Ministers of the new Congress Government on Saturday, the Karnataka Cabinet in its maiden Budget meeting yesterday afternoon, accorded ‘In-principle’ approval to implement the Congress Party’s five guarantees.
The first Cabinet meeting was held at Vidhana Soudha after Siddharamaiah took oath as the new Chief Minister at the sprawling Sree Kanteerava Stadium here yesterday. The Congress party’s five poll guarantees are 200 units of free power to all households (Gruhajyothi scheme), Rs. 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi), 10 Kgs of Rice for free to every member of a BPL family (Anna Bhagya), Rs. 3,000 monthly allowance to unemployed Graduate youths and Rs. 1,500 monthly allowance to unemployed Diploma holders (Yuvanidhi) and free travel for women in Public transport buses (Shakti).
