Former DCM to be leader of Opposition?

Bengaluru: Former Deputy CM G Parameshwara is likely to be appointed Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka assembly.

As per the sources, AICC in-charge president Sonia Gandhi appointed senior Congress leader Madhusudhan Mistry, a close friend of Parameshwara, to collect the opinion of the state Congress leaders, it looks like Parameshwara will have an edge over the others.

It is also gathered that Senior Congress leader HK Patil would be made KPCC president and Siddaramaiah will continue as Congress Legislative Party leader.

Mistry and Parameshwara had worked on different panels of the Congress at the national level, and the latter had even campaigned for the former in Gujarat during the 2014 LS polls.