Veteran leader Siddaramaiah will return as chief minister of Karnataka while Pradesh Congress chief DK Shivakumar will be his deputy, the Congress central leadership announced here today, ending five days of uncertainty over the leadership issue in the wake of the party's resounding win in the Assembly elections in the southern state.
At a media briefing here after yet another joint meeting with Mr Siddaramaiah and Mr Shivakumar, Congress General Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal and AICC in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala, said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, after eliciting the views of the newly-elected Congress MLAs and consulting members of the Gandhi family, decided that Mr Siddaramaiah would be the new leader of the state Congress Legislature Party (CLP).
Mr Siddaramaiah was formally elected the CLP leader at a meeting of the MLAs in Bengaluru this evening.
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