Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Press release: Karnataka Governor invites Sadananda Gowda to form Govt

Bangalore: 
BS Yeddyurappa may have lost the chair, but he has had his way. His man, Sadananda Gowda, will be Karnataka's new Chief Minister.

The BJP's 121 MLAs voted for Mr Gowda, who is a Lok Sabha MP, through secret ballot at a legislature party meeting held at Bangalore's Capitol Hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh supervised the voting, once it was clear that no consensus on one name was possible.

The Governor has invited Mr Gowda to form the government.

KARNATAKA GOVERNOR'S SECRETARIAT

No. GS 53 GSE 2011                                                                                         Raj Bhavan,
Bangalore,
Dated 3rd August, 2011.


PRESS COMMUNIQUE

BJP State President informed that BJP Legislature Party in Karnataka Legislative Assembly elected Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda as the new leader of the Legislature Party and requested His Excellency the Governor to invite Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda to form the Government.  Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda also staked the claim to form the Government.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda as the Chief Minister and invited him to form the Government.

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