AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh is likely to accompany Kejriwal at the meeting, an SP leader said without elaborating on the agenda of the meeting.
Gopinath Munde, a former deputy leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha, was appointed as the rural development minister by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he assumed office in 2014.
Making his last public appearance during his two-day visit to the US Capitol, Gandhi said that when he meets the non-Congress opposition parties
Siddaramaiah will be sworn in as Chief Minister and Mr Shivakumar will be sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister at 12.30 p.m. in Kanteerava Stadium.
Bawankule interacted with the media here after a meeting of state executive here on Thursday. BJP chief JP Nadda attended the meeting.
Earlier in the day he said, everything is well in the party and everyone will work together after the Congress decided on the posts after hectic deliberations following the party’s emphatic win in the recent assembly elections in the State.
He also dismissed speculative reports that Siddaramaiah was likely to be named the chief minister once again.
Notably, the BJP faced defeat in the recently concluded Assembly elections in Karnataka where the Congress registered an emphatic win.
The meeting will also discuss issues like alleged misuse of official machinery and religion by the ruling party for political interests.
Khera told reporters here that the views of the newly-elected MLAs have been elicited and the central leadership is seized of the matter.
The former chief minister, who is likely to meet Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge later this evening, did not speak with the media at the Delhi airport.
The three leaders along with AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Surjewala left Bengaluru for Delhi and will meet Kharge.
Aiming to decide on the matter, Karnataka Congress leaders including the party president and newly elected MLAs of the party will hold a Congress Legislature Party meeting today in Bengaluru.
This time, the state’s voter turnout was 73.19 percent, and exit polls predicted mixed results, giving the Congress an advantage over the BJP.
JD(S)’ Nikhil Kumaraswamy is leading in Ramanagara by 3,011 votes against H A Iqbal Hussain of the Congress.
At 1.22 p.m., Congress+ was in the lead in 133 seats, while the BJP led in 66. A party requires at least 113 seats to form the state’s government.
The civic body election in Uttar Pradesh is a litmus test for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘triple engine government’ campaign plank, while a change in government may occur in Karnataka if the Congress makes a revival.
While there are rumours of a hung assembly (no party winning a majority), CM Basavaraj Bommai and his adversary from the Congress, DK Shivakumar, disagree.
As the counting begins at 8AM, readers can follow blow-by-blow account of the vote counting, trends and winners and losers here on newsd.in.
Gehlot and Pilot have been at loggerheads over the chief minister’s post ever since the Congress formed the government in Rajasthan in December 2018.
Bihar CM Kumar has been meeting Opposition leaders to strengthen the bloc against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls due next year.
He said Speaker Rahul Narwekar cannot follow the official whip. Raut also asserted that since the process of formation of the government was illegal, the Shinde government is illegal.
The top court also referred the 2016 Nabam Rebia verdict by a five-judge constitution bench, which relates to the power of speaker on disqualification of MLAs, to a larger bench of seven judges.
Maharashtra Legislative Council elections held. Soon after voting, senior Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde becomes unreachable.
The Odisha chief minister’s move is being apparently seen as aimed at sending a message to the BJP, which has of late become an aggressive foe in his state.