Bengaluru / Bagalkot: Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has asserted that the chief minister’s selection will be decided by the Congress high command and not based on the support one enjoys of legislators, essentially setting the terms for his plausible succession to power.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah retorted that the support of MLAs was “crucial” for the top job.

“No decision happens on numbers. Always, it’s the party high command that decides who should be where and till when. I know Congress. It doesn’t work (based on the support of MLAs),” Shivakumar said in an interview to a Kannada news channel. “The CM and I have said that we’d follow whatever the party decides. There are things I can’t discuss in the media,” he added.

Shivakumar’s loaded statement, which he made during an int

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