Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP stalwart B S Yediyurappa was as sworn as chief minister for a fourth time on Friday in a sudden twist to the protracted high political drama in the state with a big challenge to manage numbers staring him in the face. Yediyurappa said he would move the motion of confidence in the assembly on July 29.

"The Karnataka Assembly session will be called on July 29 at 10 am for moving confidence motion and for the passage of the finance bill," he said. Yediyurappa alone took the oath succeeding H D Kumaraswamy three days after the Congress-JDS coalition government crumbled under the weight of a rebellion by a big chunk of its lawmakers, when it lost the motion of confidence in the state assembly.