A day after factionalism surfaced in the Kolar unit of the Congress, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar huddled with legislators on Thursday to evolve a consensus candidate in the Kolar (SC) Lok Sabha constituency.
All the legislators agreed to extend support to any candidate announced by the party high command in Kolar.
On Wednesday, five Congress legislators, including Minister for Higher Education M.C. Sudhakar, had threatened to resign opposing the possible candidature of Chikka Peddanna, son-in-law of Minister K.H. Muniyappa, in Kolar.