Siddaramaiah frontrunner to be Karnataka CM, adamant on finance portfolio: Sources

Senior Congress leader and former CM Siddaramaiah is the frontrunner to be the next Karnataka CM and is adamant on having finance portfolio, according to sources. Sources further added that power sharing formula rejected by both DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah, the two top contenders for the CM post.

Meanwhile, in the evening, both Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar met party president Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence in Delhi separately and discussed the modalities of government formation in the southern state.