The newly elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka on Sunday authorised party president Mallikarjun Kharge to pick the next chief minister. The CLP, which met at a private hotel in Bengaluru Sunday evening, passed a unanimous resolution authorising the All India Congress Committee (AICC) president to pick its leader, who will be the next chief minister. The CLP meeting was attended by AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal and three central observers. Before the meeting, Venugopal and the central observers held a meeting with the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Assembly Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar — the two front-runners for the chief minister’s post. The Congress scored a thumping win in the May 10 Assembly polls as it secured 135 seats out of 224, while the BJP bagged only 66. The next step in the process is for the contenders to arrive in the

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