Bengaluru: Balancing caste equations and not to antagonise any community ahead of the Assembly elections in 2018, the Congress High Command has decided to continue Dr. G. Parameshwara as Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President. But Dr. Parameshwara will resign as Home Minister to devote his full time and energy to the party, the Congress announced yesterday.
Sixty-six-year-old Parameshwara, a Dalit leader, has been KPCC President since October 2010. Senior leader and Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar has been appointed as Chairman of the Campaign Committee for the Assembly polls. The Congress has also said in a release that they would fight the Assembly elections under the leadership of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah.
