D K Shivakumar was elected leader of the Karnataka Congress Legislature Party, paving the way for him to become Chief Minister. The decision follows Siddaramaiah’s resignation. Shivakumar will be sworn in on June 3 at the Glass House in Bengaluru
The Congress high command is expected to finalise Kerala’s next chief minister by Sunday after consulting MLAs and senior leaders following the CLP meeting in Thiruvananthapuram. V D Satheesan, K C Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala are frontrunners for the post
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy directed Congress MLAs and MLCs to strictly follow the party and government line while responding to issues. He issued the instruction during a CLP meeting after recent statements by some legislators created problems for the party
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah reiterated that the Congress high command will take the final decision on Karnataka’s leadership issue. His remarks come amid tensions between the Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar camps, even as MLAs voiced concerns over guarantee schemes and funding priorities
Apart from Serilingampally MLA Arekapudi Gandhi, Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender, Rajendranagar MLA Prakash Goud and Station Ghanpur MLA Kadiyam Srihari attended the meeting at a private hotel.
After clinching 64 seats in the 119-seat assembly, a delegation of Congress leaders on Sunday met Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and staked claim to form the government in the state.
Hyderabad: Differences among leaders in the State Congress unit surfaced yet again with Sangareddy MLA T Jagga Reddy boycotting the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) meeting organised at a hotel here on Sunday. The CLP had convened a meeting involving party MLAs, MPs, District Congress Committee presidents and other leaders to discuss strategies to be adopted […]
