New Delhi: After four days of regular meetings, the Congress finally ended the suspense and decided to announce party veteran leader Siddaramaiah as the next Karnataka Chief Minister and its state unit chief D.K. Shivakumar as his deputy.
KC Venu Gopal and Randeep Surjewala on behalf of the Congress announced the party’s decision in a press conference on Thursday.
Shivakumar will however will continue as KPCC president until the formal elections wrap up.
The deal was sealed after the party agreed to the condition that DKS will be the only deputy chief minister.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge after several round of meetings with the senior party leaders and the two Karnataka leaders finally came to a conclusion that Opposition Leader of outgoing Assembly Siddaramaiah will be the next new Chief Minister of the southern state and Shivakumar as the state’s deputy Chief Minister.
The announcement will be made on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting in Bengaluru.
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