BENGALURU & NEW DELHI, May 18, 2023 (TBINN)
Siddaramaiah will be the next chief minister of Karnataka and D.K. Shivakumar his deputy, Congress’ sources said today after party arrived at a consensus on government formation in the state following hectic parleys.
Sources said the swearing-in ceremony will be held in Bengaluru on May 20, 2023.
They said Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge along with other stake-holders held parleys past midnight to hammer out a solution between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, the two chief ministerial aspirants.
A Congress Legislature Party (C.L.P.) meeting has been called by Shivakumar, the party’s state unit chief, in Bengaluru today Evening. The decision will be announced there.
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief has written to all legislators, asking them to attend the meeting of newly-elected M.L.A.s, M.L.C.s and M.P.s at Indira Gandhi Bhavan on Queen’s Road at 7 P.M.
Sources close to Shivakumar said he decided to make the alleged sacrifice and agreed to be deputy chief minister in the interest of party.
Hectic parleys were held on Wednesday to break the deadlock in deciding on the Congress’ chief ministerial pick in Karnataka with both the hopefuls presenting their cases before the top brass even as the party asserted that an outcome is likely within a day or two.
In the May 10, 2023 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, Congress scored an emphatic victory by bagging 135 seats while the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party and the former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) secured 66 and 19 seats, respectively.
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