Kumaraswamy meets Rahul, Sonia to discuss Karnataka government formation

The Congress and the JD(S) have tied up to form the Karnataka government.

Kumaraswamy will swear-in as the CM of the state on Wednesday. The swearing-in ceremony was earlier scheduled to be held on Monday but it was deferred considering former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary on the particular day.

Several opposition leaders including Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telegu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao have been invited by Kumaraswamy to the swearing-in ceremony.

The Congress reportedly proposed to have two Deputy Chief Ministers of Karnataka, an idea which has not been accepted by the JD(S) yet.

The Congress and JD(S) will form the government after a week-long political drama, which occurred after the Karnataka polls results.

As the Karnataka people gave a fractured mandate, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which emerged as a single largest party with 104 seats, was invited to form the government by Governor Vajubhai Vala.

However, the Congress and the JD(S) combine claimed to have the simple majority (113) with the support of 117 lawmakers.

The political tussle reached the judiciary as the Congress-JD(S) moved the Supreme Court to stall BJP's strongman BS Yeddyurappa's swearing-in as the CM.

Though the swearing-in ceremony was not stopped, the top court had slashed the 15-day period, which was given by the Governor to the BJP to prove majority, to little more than 24 hours.

Even before the floor test began, Yeddyurappa had resigned as the BJP failed to secure the simple majority. With two seats yet to be polled, BJP would have required the support of 113 MLAs for the time being to form the state government.

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