Ending all speculations, Siddaramaiah is finally the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Karnataka. The Deputy Chief Minister is DK Shivakumar. AICC organizing secretary KC Benugopal announced this decision at the Congress headquarters in Delhi on Thursday. He was accompanied by Randeep Surjewala, AICC leader in charge of Karnataka.
After announcing the decision of the Congress, the 76-year-old Siddaramaiah said in response to the questions of the reporters, “What has been said by the party, I also like it.” Nothing else to say beyond that.
Sivakumar tweeted. It read below a photo of party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Siddaramaiah, Karnataka’s future secured. The welfare of the people of the state is our priority. We are united to ensure that.
Both Benugopal and Surjewala said Sivakumar would be the only Deputy Chief Minister. But at the same time, he will remain in the position of state president. They said that Lok Sabha polls will be held next year. In view of that, Shivakumar is being retained as the state president. At the party’s plenary session in Jaipur, however, the policy of ‘one person one post’ was adopted.
Meanwhile, in Karnataka’s 224-seat assembly, 217 MLAs are millionaires, which is 97 percent. 132 out of 135 Congress MLAs are millionaires. 63 out of 66 BJP MLAs are millionaires. All but one of the 19 members of the Janata Dal (Secular) are millionaires. The average net worth of winners is Rs 64.39 crore. The richest MLA is Congress leader DK Sivakumar. His total property is 1 thousand 414 crore rupees.
According to the data released by the Election Commission before the polls in Karnataka, 581 candidates have criminal cases against them. Among them 122 people won the election.
National or regional political parties target each other over patriarchy. Out of the 224 winning assembly members from the southern states, 43 got a chance to contest the polls due to family sources.
