{"id":2680,"date":"2023-05-15T03:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/mlas-meet-ballot-boxes-in-congress-tug-of-war-for-karnataka-top-job\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T03:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:57:33","slug":"mlas-meet-ballot-boxes-in-congress-tug-of-war-for-karnataka-top-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"MLAs&#8217; Meet, Ballot Boxes In Congress Tug Of War For Karnataka Top Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/t8rp3i9g_shivakumar-siddaramaiah_650x400_15_May_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Siddaramaiah Or DK Shivakumar? Who Will Congress Pick For Karnataka Top Job\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Siddaramaiah Or DK Shivakumar? Who Will Congress Pick For Karnataka Top Job\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Siddaramaiah Or DK Shivakumar? Who Will Congress Pick For Karnataka Top Job\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/t8rp3i9g_shivakumar-siddaramaiah_650x400_15_May_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-05-15T08:20:02+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=699926&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/14052023_n_CongressMeeting10pm_58229_26644_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T3M37S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/t8rp3i9g_shivakumar-siddaramaiah_650x400_15_May_23.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=699926&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The Congress won the Karnataka assembly election 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Bengaluru: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Congress party has asked its national chief Mallikarjun Kharge to decide who will be the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. Every MLA met the Congress&#8217;s team of observers and told them their choice by vote, before leaving a five-star hotel in Bengaluru where the Congress held a meeting of all MLAs.<\/p>\n<p>The new Karnataka Chief Minister and the cabinet will take oath on Thursday, sources have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress asked Mr Kharge to take a decision on the Chief Minister&#8217;s appointment after the meeting of its Karnataka MLAs at the Bengaluru hotel ended this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Congress leaders DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah have expressed interest in the top post, raising concerns over a stand-off if the matter is not resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The supporters of both the Congress leaders slogans outside the Bengaluru hotel where the meeting took place.<\/p>\n<p>Congress General Secretaries Sushil Kumar Shinde, Deepak Babaria and Jitendra Singh Alwar were the observers at the Karnataka Congress Legislature Party meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Gandhis and Mr Kharge will attend the oath-taking event on Thursday. The Congress has sent invitations to all &#8220;like-minded&#8221; parties to attend it. The final contours of the Karnataka cabinet will take shape in a day or two, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKShivakumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dkshivakumar<\/a> ji and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siddaramaiah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@siddaramaiah<\/a> ji at the dinner post the CLP meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is UNITED.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to ensure we deliver good governance to the people of Karnataka who have trusted us. Our priority is to fulfill Congress Guarantees. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1EbSFyBch5\">pic.twitter.com\/1EbSFyBch5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rssurjewala\/status\/1657795507400351745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Siddaramaiah&#8217;s supporters have put up a poster outside his home in Bengaluru, referring to him as &#8220;the next Chief Minister of Karnataka&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Posters also came up outside Mr Shivakumar&#8217;s house, wishing &#8220;birthday greetings&#8221; to &#8220;the new Chief Minister of Karnataka&#8221;. His birthday is tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has been voted out of power in Karnataka, its only bastion in the south until yesterday, when the Congress took 135 seats in the 224-member house.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP won only 66 seats, down from 104 in the 2018 state election. It did not win a single seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) category. Karnataka has 51 reserved constituencies, out of which 36 are for Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates and 15 for ST candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the Congress win is a record in terms of both seats and vote share in over 30 years. The party won 135 seats &#8211; 55 more than in 2018 &#8211; with a vote share of 42.88 per cent. The closest the Congress came to this score was in 1999 when it won 132 seats and had a vote share of 40.84 per cent. In 1989, it won 178 seats with a vote share of 43.76 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/karnataka-chief-minister-to-be-sworn-in-on-thursday-says-congress-amid-suspense-over-decision-4033766\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Congress won the Karnataka assembly election 2023 Bengaluru: The Congress party has asked its national chief Mallikarjun Kharge to decide who will be the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. 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