Kumaraswamy to attend Modi’s swearing-in, to meet Rahul

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will participate in the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday.

Modi stormed to power for a second term even as his party the BJP won 25 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, in what was a near-annihilation of the Congress-JD(S) coalition. The result came as a huge setback for Kumaraswamy, what with his son Nikhil losing to BJP-backed independent candidate Sumalatha in Mandya.

Kumaraswamy is also expected to reach out to Congress president Rahul Gandhi during his visit to New Delhi. “I will request Rahul Gandhi to continue. I’ll be meeting him,” Kumaraswamy told reporters.