Bengaluru: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has invited Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to his swearing-in ceremony to be held in Patna on November 20.
Nitish spoke to Siddaramaiah and extended an invite to the ceremony.
Earlier, Nitish Kumar’s aide told sources that he has invited veteran BJP leader LK Advani and BJP Lok Sabha member Shatrughan Sinha to his oath-taking ceremony on Sunday.
“Advani and Shatrughan Sinha have been invited to the event at Gandhi Maidan. We have sent invitations to both of them,” said a Janata Dal-United leader close to Nitish Kumar.
But no invitation has been sent to any other BJP leader, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, it has been reported.
The event is expected to see a galaxy of top political leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, chief ministers Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi, Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, Naveen Patnaik of Odisha and Akhilesh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh.
Former Prime Minister H.D. Devegowda is also likely to attend the oath-taking, besides former Jharkhand chief ministers Babulal Marandi and Hemant Soren and INLD leader Abhay Chautala.
Lalu Prasad and JD-U president Sharad Yadav will be the main guests.
According to JD-U leaders, Nitish Kumar will take the oath as a chief minister along with a 36-member council of ministers on November 20.
The RJD emerged as the single largest party in the 243-seat house with 80 assembly seats followed by the JD-U (71) and the Congress (27 seats).
There will be 16 ministers from the RJD, 15 from the JD-U and five from the Congress in the new government.
Inputs from agencies
