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Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah, who is going to become the Chief Minister of Karnataka, will face many challenges, including cabinet formation, distribution of portfolios and fulfilling the promise of five ‘guarantees’.

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Party aide to Siddaramaiah and going to be Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivkumar will also have to be taken along. The first challenge before Siddaramaiah after taking oath is to form a cabinet that can accommodate new and old generation legislators, apart from all communities, regions and factions.

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The Karnataka cabinet can have a maximum of 34 ministers and with many MLAs aspiring to become ministers, Siddaramaiah will have a tough task in his hands.

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According to party sources, with all major communities supporting the party in a big way in the assembly elections held on May 10, naturally each one would have aspirations and Siddaramaiah’s challenge would be to take everyone along.

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There were many contenders for the post of Deputy Chief Minister. However, the central leadership of the Congress has made it clear that only Shivakumar will be the Deputy Chief Minister. Many senior leaders of the party are angry with this.

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Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara warned the party’s central leadership that if the deputy chief minister’s post was not given to a Dalit, there would be adverse reaction and it would be difficult for the party.

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He said that I was aspirant for both the posts of Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, but now we have to follow the decision of the high command, so it has to be seen what they will do in the coming days. As of now he has announced for two and we will have to watch and wait how he will do justice during the cabinet expansion.