In a thumping victory, the Congress has emerged because the single-largest occasion in Karnataka with a lead at 130 plus seats. The Congress, positive of getting a victory, is now mulling the attainable Chief Ministerial candidates for Karnataka and the identify that’s making it to prime of the desk is former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
However, there are reviews that Congress’ state unit chief DK Shivakumar may be chosen for the highest put up.
Ok Siddaramaiah – A political heavyweight
Leader of Opposition within the final Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah is a former Chief Minister and two-time Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. He held the Chief Minister’s put up between the yr 2013 to the yr 2018. The Congress had fought 2018 meeting elections in Karnataka below Siddaramaiah’s management. However, the occasion managed to complete on the second place and later shaped a authorities in Karnataka.
2-Times Deputy Chief Minister and Top JDS Leader
Siddaramaiah was earlier part of the JD-S and has served because the Deputy Chief Minister twice within the state. In 2005, Siddaramaiah was suspended from the JD-S. A yr later he joined the Congress along with his followers. He turned the chief minister of Karnataka on 13 May 2013.
8-Time MLA
Besides being a former Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah has been an MLA for eight phrases. He was additionally the chief of the Opposition within the Karnataka Assembly. Interestingly, Siddaramiah has mentioned that that is going to be his final election.
Enjoys reputation throughout the state
While DK Shivakumar is a frontrunner who enjoys reputation within the organisation, Siddaramaiah enjoys reputation among the many plenty – an enormous issue that’s seemingly to enter his favour.
Some attention-grabbing info
– An Atheist: The prime Congress chief has as soon as on document mentioned that he’s an atheist. However, he later sought to make clear that he’s “spiritual — I have participated in festivities as child. I have visited some of the popular pilgrimage centers. But I am definitely against superstition, as I view everything from a science point of view”.
Early life and household
Sri Siddaramaiah was Born on twelfth August 1948 at Siddaramana Hundi, a distant village in Varuna Hobli of Mysore District. The Congress chief hails from a poor farming neighborhood. He graduated from Mysore University with B. Sc., diploma. Later he did his Law diploma from Mysore University and pursued the Law occupation for a while.,
Siddaramaiah is married to Parvathi, each had two sons – Rakesh and Yathindra. Siddaramaiah’s elder son, Rakesh, his obvious inheritor in politics, died of a number of organ failure in 2016 on the age of 38. The youthful son Yathindra, contested the 2018 Legislative Assembly elections and gained from the seat of Varuna in Mysuru.
