A war is over but the battle within continues. Congress registered a resounding victory in the Karnataka assembly election 2023, winning 136 seats. The BJP was ahead on 60-plus seats and HD Kumaraswamy’s JD(S) in over 20 seats. With this the Congress managed to bag one more state in its kitty.
The contenders for the CM’s post are veteran Congress leaders Siddaramiah and DK Shivakumar. Both are strong claimants for the top job and the final decision will be made by the Congress brass. Former chief minister Siddaramiah has admitted that Shivakumar is also in the race for the chief minister’s post.
Supporters of Siddaramaiah and D.K. Shivakumar have started claiming that their leader should be made the CM. Huge posters have come up in front of the residences of both the leaders.
The posters put up by the Congress workers claimed that their leaders are going to become the Chief Minister of the state. Sources explained that both Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar are intensely lobbying for the post and talking to MLAs to support them in the Legislature party meeting scheduled to be held on Sunday evening.
Amid all this, the supporters of Priyank Kharge, son of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, have also started a poster campaign demanding that he, a three-time MLA, should be made the CM.
“This is not only the dream of his father, it is the dream of all Kannadigas,” reads a poster. A Twitter handle has also been created over the matter, said a source.
