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Siddaramaiah is K’taka CM

Bangalore, May 10 
Siddaramaiah, who led the Congress battle against the BJP government's corruption in Karnataka, was today chosen to be the new Chief Minister in a hotly-contested race, edging out party veteran and Union Labour Minister M Mallikarjuna Kharge.

Two days after Congress made a spectacular comeback with an absolute majority in the elections, the 64-year-old backward class leader was chosen at a meeting of the newly-elected MLAs in the presence of four AICC observers headed by Defence Minister A K Antony.