Bengaluru: Outgoing chief minister BS Yediyurappa's close confidant and state’s home minister Basavaraj Bommai is to be the 20th CM of Karnataka. He will be sworn in on Wednesday.
Bommai’s elevation to the top post keeps two key constituents for BJP — Lingayat community and Yediyurappa — happy. As a Lingayat himself, Bommai will be acceptable to the politically influential community and by choosing him, the BJP high command seems to have rewarded Yediyurappa for walking graciously and promising to work for the party.
The 61-year-old three-time MLA from Shiggaon in Haveri district in north Karnataka is the son of late former chief minister and ex-Union minister SR Bommai. It makes the Bommais the second father-son duo after H D Deve Gowda and H D Kumaraswamy to become chief ministers in the state. Bommai Senior was the CM for nine months in 1989.
An engineering graduate who started out by working for the Tatas in Pune, Bommai’s name was not prominent among those thought to be in the reckoning for chief minister until Tuesday.
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