'No deal with DKS on power-sharing, will abide by high command decision'

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said there was no agreement between him and Deputy CM D K Shivakumar over power-sharing, before the Congress came to power in the state, and would abide by the decision of the party high command.

Reacting to Siddaramaiah's comments, Shivakumar, who is also the state Congress President, said whatever the CM says is final.

"There was no agreement. I will abide by the high command's decision," Siddaramaiah told media, in response to a question on Shivakumar's reported statement that there was an agreement between them, before coming to power.

There was stiff competition between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the CM's post after the declaration of Assembly election results in May last year, and the Congress had managed to convince the latter and made him the Deputy Chief Minister.