The leadership of the Karnataka Congress had to postpone the important decision till today 17 May as DK Shivakumar, who met with party president Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi on Tuesday, continued to lay a claim to the position of chief minister.
Even after the leadership boosted its offer to Shivakumar by guaranteeing him a three-year term if he agreed to Siddaramaiah preside over the CMO for the first two years of the mandate, party circles in both Bengaluru and New Delhi were still rife with rumours about Shivakumar adhering to his claim.