New Delhi: Prime Congress leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi, held a closed-door assembly Tuesday afternoon because the race to the chief minister’s chair in Karnataka intensified between rival aspirants Siddaramaiah and D.Ok. Shivakumar.
Gandhi mentioned authorities formation with social gathering president Mallikarjun Kharge – Common Secretary Randeep Surjewala and several other newly-elected MLAs have been additionally current – whereas the state’s two prime leaders waited to be referred to as.
Former chief minister Siddaramaih arrived in Delhi on Monday, and met the management within the Lodhi resort.
Congress social gathering chief Shivakumar, who rang in his birthday on Monday, stayed again in Bengaluru citing a abdomen an infection. He arrived Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier than he left Bengaluru, Shivakumar mentioned he wouldn’t resort to “backstabbing or blackmail” no matter no matter choice the excessive command took.
He instructed information company ANI: “If the social gathering needs they may give me the accountability… Ours is a united home, our quantity is 135. I don’t wish to divide anybody right here. Whether or not they like me or not, I’m a accountable man. I can’t backstab and I can’t blackmail.”
The Congress has received 135 seats within the recently-held elections to the 224-member Karnataka meeting because the outcomes have been declared Saturday.
On Sunday night time, the social gathering’s legislative social gathering met in Bengaluru and handed a one-line decision empowering Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to select their head.
The subsequent day, the social gathering’s central observers briefed Mallikarjun Kharge on the views of the newly-elected MLAs.
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