Karnataka Congress Chief, DK Shivakumar, has accepted to take up the Deputy Chief Minister post following former party president Sonia Gandhi's intervention, sources claimed.
While both Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar were in the running for the Karnataka Chief Minister's post, it was clear from the start that Siddaramaiah had the edge
The Congress believes in "consensus, not dictatorship", party leader KC Venugopal said today as he announced Siddaramaiah as the Congress leadership's choice for the Karnataka chief minister post, four days after returned to power in the state