Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's swearing-in Photo Credit: IANS HD Kumaraswamy took oath as the chief minister of Karnataka in Bengaluru on May 23.

Bengaluru: In a shocking revelation, it has come to the fore how taxpayers' money was splurged for comforting netas who came for the swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Documents accessed by Times Now show lakhs of money were spent on the hospitality and stay of netas from Chandrababu Naidu to Akhilesh Yadav, Ashok Gehlot to Mayawati, among others.

More than Rs 43 lakh was spent on Kumaraswamy's swearing-in, as revealed by an RTI reply. For two-day stay, the Janata Dal (Secular) paid hotel bills amounting to over a lakh per person, with just Chandrababu Naidu running up a bill of Rs 8.3 lakh.

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The revelation comes at a time when Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) workers in the state haven't received wages for months. Last month, distressed by the non-payment of wages for more than five months, a 37-year-old conservancy worker killed himself in Bengaluru's Guttahalli area. S Subramani, who is survived by a wife and two daughters, was among the hundreds of workers who have not received the salary for the past few months.

Here's the splurge list:

Chandrababu Naidu - Rs 8,34,093

Kamal Haasan - Rs 1,02,040

Arvind Kejriwal - Rs 1,85,188

Akhilesh Yadav - Rs 1,02,400

Mayawati – Rs 1,41,443

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Surprising, the State Hospitality Department of the Karnataka government, who got involved in the entire arrangement for Kumaraswamy's oath-taking, did not spend any money to provide accommodation to the guests who attended the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah and BS Yeddyurappa in the past.