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How Siddaramaiah pipped Kharge to Karnataka CM
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Friday May 10, 2013 08:59:16 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Karnataka's
Congress chief minister-designate Siddaramaiah Friday outsmarted
union Labour Minister and rival Mallikarjun Kharge to the state's
top executive post by securing the majority support of the party's
121 newly-elected lawmakers.
"In the secret ballot held to seek the opinion of the legislators
for the chief minister's post, as many as 87 lawmakers preferred
Siddaramaiah to Kharge, paving way for the party high command to
endorse their choice," a senior Congress leader told IANS on
anonymity.
Spilling the beans on how Siddaramaiah got "elected" through a
secret ballot for the post, the party leader said though all the
legislators unanimously passed a one-line resolution authorising
the high command to name the chief minister, party president Sonia
Gandhi, in turn, directed the three central observers she deputed
for the exercise, to ask the lawmakers individually whom they
prefer and revert by evening itself.
Then, the three observers -- Defence Minister A.K. Antony, party's
senior leader from Goa Luizinho Faleiro and union Minister of
State for Youth Affairs and Sports Jitendra Singh -- called the
legislators individually and sought their opinion in writing on a
slip.
"Though the observers did not officially disclose the exact number
of legislators who preferred Siddaramaiah to Kharge, as it was a
secret ballot, feedback from them individually and collectively
later indicated later that nearly three-fourths of them had given
their consent to Siddaramaiah for the chief minister's post," the
party leader said.
When word went out that Siddaramaiah was the choice of the
majority legislators, Kharge gracefully withdrew from the contest
and left the party office even before Antony informed the high
command about the legislators' choice and Gandhi endorsed it by 5
p.m.
Amid high drama, hundreds of Siddaramaiah's supporters and
loyalists waited with bated breath for her return call to Antony.
The prolonged suspense ended suddenly an hour before the high
command decision was to be announced by 6 p.m., leading to
jubilant scenes at the party's office in the city centre and
bursting of fire crackers and gathering of boisterous crowds
causing massive traffic snarls in downtown.
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