held separate discussions with party president mallikarjun kharge and rahul before a solution emergedin rajasthan while gehlot was declared as the cm pilot was made deputy cm and he also held the congress state presidents post in karnataka too while siddaramaiah will be the cm shivakumar will hold twin posts of deputy cm and state president of the partyas in rajasthan the congress high command has once again chosen to accord priority to siddaramaiah who is older has already served as the state cm and has more experience than shivakumar who is the state party president and younger than his soontobeboss