Karnataka: Cong Legislature Party to meet today

May 18, 2023 08:12

A Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting has been called by the party's state unit chief D K Shivakumar in Bengaluru on Thursday evening.

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief has written to all the legislators, asking them to attend the meeting of newly-elected MLAs, MLCs and MPs at the Indira Gandhi Bhavan on Queen's Road in Bengaluru at 7 pm.

After hectic parleys on Wednesday to break the deadlock on the chief ministerial pick in Karnataka, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reportedly arrived at a consensus for government formation late at night.

As per sources, Siddaramaiah will take oath as the chief minister on May 20 with D K Shivakumar as his deputy.

In the May 10 elections to the 224-member assembly, the Congress scored an emphatic victory by bagging 135 seats, while the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal-Secular secured 66 and 19 seats respectively. -- PTI

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