Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar on Monday met with supporters, who gathered outdoors his residence in Bengaluru to greet him on his birthday immediately.
Scores of Congress supporters waited for hours with truffles to want the Congress chief who’s a contender for Karnataka’s Chief Minister’s submit.
Shivakumar was garlanded with flowers and given flower bouquets earlier than he proceeded to the Shagri-La lodge in Bengaluru for a gathering of the Congress Legislative Celebration Assembly.
#WATCH | Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar meets his supporters who’ve gathered at his residence to want him on his birthday immediately pic.twitter.com/6DKdXo62qQ
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“I’m celebrating the birthday of Shivakumar for 20 years. I’m his shut aide. Yearly the cake is sported with a message that you’re the long run CM,” stated Shamsher Beig, who additionally waited for hours to want his favorite chief.
He stated it is vitally essential for Shivakumar to be appointed because the Chief Minister to fulfil the ballot guarantees, talked about in Congress’ manifesto.
“The youth, Congress get together, and everybody desires Shivakumar to be appointed as our Chief Minister,” he stated.
After Congress’ spectacular victory within the southern state which it gained the Meeting elections with 135 votes, each state chief DK Shivakumar and senior chief Siddaramaiah are reportedly eyeing the submit of chief minister.
Congress chief and All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala, on Sunday late evening stated that get together chief Mallikarjun Kharge is not going to take lengthy and announce the identify of subsequent chief minister of Karnataka quickly.
Talking to reporters after a late-night assembly of newly elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka’s Bengaluru, Surjewala stated, “Celebration management will take a choice. I can not exchange my judgement with Kharge Sahab’s judgement. He’s our senior, and as you all know him. He’s the son of the soil of Karnataka, and I am certain he is not going to take very lengthy.”
“The successful get together will probably be within the first cupboard once we will implement our first 5 ensures,” he stated whereas responding to a question on plans for the oath-taking ceremony after the choice on the brand new CM of Karnataka.
The assembly was convened after Congress Legislature Celebration (CLP) unanimously handed a decision authorising get together president Mallikarjun Kharge to choose the identify of the Karnataka Chief Minister. “The Congress Legislature Celebration unanimously resolves that AICC President is hereby authorised to nominate the brand new chief of the Congress Legislature Celebration,” the decision said.
Former Maharashtra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and get together leaders Jitendra Singh and Deepak Babaria had been current within the assembly as observers. Celebration leaders like Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar, KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh and others additionally attended the assembly.
“Total strategy of assembly particular person legislators of Congress get together has been accomplished with nice bohemia. The observers met all of the MLAs individually and recorded their views and now they may submit a report back to the Congress management and after that, we are going to announce the subsequent chief of the Congress Legislature Celebration,” AICC in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala additional instructed reporters.
When requested if there have been any presents being deliberate for Siddaramaiah or DK Shivakumar on the latter’s birthday, Surjewala stated, “I’m not a celebration to these discussions as Normal Secretary I am a easy employee to Congress who stood out with all my legislatures. We had been sitting collectively and planning the way forward for Karnataka which is extra essential to us. We additionally celebrated DK Shivakumar’s birthday collectively.”
Forward of the CLP assembly, Congress Normal Secretary KC Venugopal had stated the method of taking the opinion of MLAs will probably be accomplished by tonight itself and after that, the observers will transfer to Delhi to apprise the AICC president concerning the opinion.
“This strategy of taking the opinion of the MLAs will probably be accomplished tonight itself. As Randeep Surjewala stated, it is a unanimous decision moved by Siddaramaiah and supported by DK Shivakumar and all of the senior leaders,” Venugopal stated.
Earlier, an enormous variety of supporters gathered outdoors the residence of Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar in Bengaluru on Sunday and raised slogans of ‘We would like DK Shivakumar as CM’.
Congress, which registered an emphatic victory defeating the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) in Karnataka on Saturday, had been dealing with the problem of deciding the chief minister amid speculations of Siddaramaiah being the front-runner adopted by state get together president DK Shivakumar.
Mr Kharge on Sunday appointed three observers in Karnataka together with former Maharashtra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and get together leaders Jitendra Singh and Deepak Babaria for the election of the Congress Legislative Celebration (CLP) chief within the state.
Based on the Election Fee of India, Congress on Saturday gained 135 seats pushing the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) out of energy in the one southern state it dominated and boosting its personal prospects for the electoral battles forward.
BJP managed to win 66 seats. Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) bagged 19 seats. Independents have gained two seats whereas Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha gained one seat every.
