New Delhi:

Amid the race for the Karnataka chief minister’s publish, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge and mentioned authorities formation within the southern state.

Mr Gandhi drove to Mr Kharge’s residence and held a closed-door assembly with the Congress chief for nearly an hour and a half. Congress General Secretary Randeep Surjewala, who’s in command of the celebration’s affairs in Karnataka, and AICC common secretary (organisation) Okay C Venugopal had been additionally current on the assembly.

Mr Kharge earlier held discussions with celebration leaders from Karnataka and the three observers appointed by him to supervise the Congress Legislature Party assembly held in Bengaluru on Sunday.

The observers had sought the opinion of all newly-elected MLAs and likewise held a ‘secret poll’ on their alternative for chief minister. The observers mentioned the findings of their report after talking to the celebration MLAs in Karnataka and handed it over to Mr Kharge Monday evening.

Both Siddaramaiah and state Congress president D Okay Shivakumar are entrance runners for the chief minister’s publish and each are lobbying for it.

While former chief minister Siddaramaiah is in Delhi, Mr Shivakumar arrived within the nationwide capital Tuesday afternoon. After arriving at Delhi airport, he didn’t converse to the media and walked away with folded palms parrying a barrage of questions from reporters.

Mr Shivakumar had earlier cancelled his go to to the nationwide capital on Monday night citing well being points, fuelling speculations that every one will not be nicely within the celebration.

Siddaramaiah and Mr Shivakumar will maintain discussions with celebration chief Kharge, in addition to with different senior leaders over authorities formation in Karnataka. Both leaders are additionally anticipated to fulfill former celebration chief Rahul Gandhi.

Sources mentioned former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi would even be consulted over the selection of chief minister and authorities formation in Karnataka.

The newly-elected Congress MLAs have already handed a decision authorising celebration chief Kharge to nominate a frontrunner of the Congress Legislature celebration, who would be the chief minister.

In the just-concluded Assembly elections, the Congress scored an emphatic victory with 135 seats whereas the ruling BJP and the previous Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) secured 66 and 19 seats, respectively.

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