Congress sources said that an agreement could be reached only after Sonia Gandhi spoke to DK Shivakumar, who had been firm on his demand for the Chief Minister post.
Congress won 135 seats pushing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power in the only southern state it ruled and emerging as the natural opposition party in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
MVA- comprising Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP, and Congress- will work out a seat-sharing formula ahead of the Lok Sabha and the Maharashtra assembly elections, due in the second half of the next year.
As state education minister, Nagesh enforced the hijab ban in government PUC colleges, which led to several Muslim women students being unable to attend classes in Karnataka.