Congress’s troubles are not over even after a stupendous performance in Karnataka. A poster war was witnessed on Sunday between senior Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar over the post of Chief Minister. With both the leaders in the race for the post of Chief Minister of Karnataka, the newly elected Congress MLAs authorized party president Mallikarjun Kharge to elect them as the leader of the legislature party.

Congress General Secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal said that three central observers will take the opinion of the MLAs, which will be conveyed to the party president. He said that the three observers Sushil Kumar Shinde, Jitendra Singh and Deepak Babaria would submit their reports to Kharge by Monday. Earlier, the Congress Legislature Party meeting was held in Bengaluru on Sunday. It was decided in this meeting itself that the leader of the Legislature Party would be elected by Kharge.

Central observers discussed with Siddaramaiah and ShivakumarParty’s Karnataka in-charge Randeep Surjewala said that the first resolution was moved by state Congress chief Shivakumar thanking all the leaders and workers and people of Karnataka, while the second one-line resolution was moved by Siddaramaiah. to be done. Prior to the meeting, central observers of the Congress along with Venugopal held discussions with Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. At the same time, before returning to Delhi, Kharge said that the process of government formation would be completed soon. Significantly, before the term of the previous assembly in Karnataka ended on May, the newly elected assembly was constituted. have to go.

Supporters of Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar shouted slogans But she is facing a difficult situation as the process of electing the chief minister begins. Supporters of Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar shouted slogans and waved banners outside the venue of the meeting. Earlier, both the leaders held meetings with their loyal MLAs. A poster war also broke out between the two sides projecting their leader as the next chief minister. Shivakumar is considered a troubleshooter for the Congress party, while Siddaramaiah is popular across the state. Ahead of the meeting of the newly elected legislators, Shivakumar denied any differences with Siddaramaiah.

Will do a detailed analysis of the reasons for the defeat: Bommai

BJP leader and outgoing Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai said that the state unit of the party has conducted a detailed analysis of the overall election results and constituency-wise results to find out the reasons for the party’s defeat in the assembly elections. decided to analyze. He said several factors were responsible for the party’s performance and all of them would be analysed.

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