{"id":343720,"date":"2023-05-18T05:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=343720"},"modified":"2023-05-18T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:59:42","slug":"siddaramaiah-karnatakas-next-cm-d-k-shivakumar-his-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/siddaramaiah-karnatakas-next-cm-d-k-shivakumar-his-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddaramaiah Karnataka&#8217;s next CM, D K Shivakumar his deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Karnatka-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343721\" width=\"687\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Karnatka-Congress.jpg 670w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Karnatka-Congress-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 Ending days of suspense, the Congress on Thursday announced Siddaramaiah as the next chief minister of Karnataka and D K Shivakumar as his only deputy in the soon-to-formed cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two leaders, who were in a tight race for the top post, would take oath along with other ministers on May 20 and leaders of all like-minded parties will be invited for the swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announcing the decision taken by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge after hectic parleys ever since the party emerged victorious on May 13, General Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal said all leaders, including the top leadership, worked very hard to make Karnataka victory a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have decided on Siddaramiah as the chief minister of Karnataka. D K Shivakumar will the only Deputy CM,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shivakumar will also continue as the party&#8217;s Karnataka state president till Parliamentary elections, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same press conference, senior party leader Randeep Surjewala said the Congress party is committed to fulfil the five promises that were made during the elections. Asked about the much-talked-about power-sharing formula between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, Venugopal said the only power-sharing formula is to share the power with the people of Karnataka.&nbsp; &#8220;Ours is a democratic party, we believe in consensus and not in dictatorship,&#8221; he said on the hectic discussions held over the last few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 Ending days of suspense, the Congress on Thursday announced Siddaramaiah as the next chief minister of Karnataka and D K Shivakumar as his only deputy in the soon-to-formed cabinet. The two leaders, who were in a tight race for the top post, would take oath along with other ministers on May 20 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":343721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16701,16706,16747],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343722,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343720\/revisions\/343722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/343721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}