Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, party general secretary Jitendra Singh and senior leader Deepak Babaria as observers for the election of Congress Legislative Party in Karnataka, General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal said on May 14.
The meeting of the newly-elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka is underway to discuss government formation with leaders eliciting their views on the chief ministerial candidate.
Sending out a clear signal for change, Karnataka voters decimated the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and gave Congress an unambiguous mandate, with 135 seats in the 224-member Legislative Assembly.