Siddaramaiah Vs Shivakumar: Congress Big Decision Likely Tomorrow

A meeting of the Congress legislature party will be held on Sunday as the party inches towards a majority in Karnataka.

The meeting is important as the party would now have to decide on who the chief ministerial candidate would be.

The race is between Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar. It is however unclear who would make it to the top post. Congress sources tell OneIndia that the person with the support of more number of MLAs will make the cut.

Siddaramaiah has said that this is his last election, and hence it appears that the Congress would consider him. D K Shivakumar had appealed to the Vokkaliga voters and if the Congress has done exceptionally well in the Old Mysuru Region, then it would be hard to deny him the post.

Similar questions had been raised in 2013 as well. At that time the battle was between Siddaramaiah and Dr. G Parameshwar. However Siddaramaiah had the edge as Parameshwar ended up losing the elections.

The Congress legislature party meet would be an important one and a final call will be taken on who will be the CM if the Congress forms the government.