Bangalore: Taking the oath of office on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha may be a grand spectacle but it has brought doom too, according to a report in Deccan Herald.
The iconic Vidhana Soudha houses the Karnataka legislature. The steps leading up to this seat of power has been the desired venue of several chief minister-designates for their oath taking ceremony.
The tragic part though is that none of them completed a full five-year term. So far, only two chief ministers, D Devaraj Urs and Siddaramaiah, have completed their full five-year term.
While Urs took the oath of office in Raj Bhavan, Siddaramaiah was sworn-in at Kanteerava Stadium. But all those who were sworn-in on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha were not successful in completing the term.
Earlier, the swearing-in ceremony used to be a small affair inside the Glass House of the Raj Bhavan.
For the first time in 1983, the oath-taking ceremony was open to the public and was witnessed by the masses.
Ramakrishna Hegde became the first non-Congress chief minister and also the first to take oath on the steps of the Vidhan Soudha.
