While Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar remain the favourites, Congress leader G Parameshwara and Lingayat faces MB Patil, Shamanuru Shivashankarappa and Eshwar Khandre could also be options for the top job in Karnataka
Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara has expressed his willingness to be in the fray for the Karnataka CM post, saying if the party's high command gave him the opportunity, he would accept it.
Along with anti-incumbency and a strong narrative by the opposition, the BJP's diminished performance in the 2023 Karnataka election is perhaps an indictment of its social engineering strategies.
The Congress which secured a comfortable majority in the Karnataka Assembly elections 2023, but the question now on everyone s mind is: Who will be the Chief Minister? While Siddaramaiah has reached national capital, DK Shivakumar has taken a U-Turn and dropped the idea of going to Delhi tonight.