The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has completed 100 days in office and earned plaudits for rolling out four of its five pre-poll guarantees, which helped in propelling it to power.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Deputy, D.K. Shivakumar, who is also State party chief, have seemingly reconciled differences over sharing of power, and held two sittings of the State legislature — first to enable the swearing in of new members, and second, to present the Congress government’s full-fledged Budget for the current year, dumping the pre-election Budget presented by the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. The new government seems to have settled down to show that it means business.
Though 100 days is too short a period to evaluate the performance of any elected government, the Congress party has managed the task of constituting the full cabinet of 34 Ministers and has, by and large, quelled heartburn among some seniors for not being accommodated.
