New Delhi: Amid a race for the Karnataka chief minister’s submit, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met occasion president Mallikarjun Kharge and is reported to have held discussions over authorities formation within the southern state.
Gandhi drove to Kharge’s residence and held a closed-door assembly with the Congress chief. Congress General Secretary Randeep Surjewala, who’s in control of the occasion’s affairs in Karnataka, was additionally current on the assembly. Kharge has held discussions with occasion leaders from Karnataka and the three observers appointed by him to supervise the Congress Legislature Party assembly in Bengaluru on Sunday.
Both Siddaramaiah and state Congress president D Okay Shivakumar are entrance runners for the chief minister’s submit and each are lobbying for it. While former chief minister Siddaramaiah is in Delhi, Shivakumar canceled his go to to the nationwide capital on Monday night citing well being points, fuelling speculations that each one isn’t properly within the occasion.
Shivakumar arrived within the nationwide capital Tuesday afternoon. After arriving at Delhi airport, he didn’t communicate to the media and walked away with folded arms parrying a barrage of questions from reporters. Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar will maintain discussions over authorities formation in Karnataka.
In just-concluded Assembly elections, the Congress scored an emphatic victory with 135 seats whereas the ruling BJP and the previous Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) secured 66 and 19 seats, respectively.
