New Delhi, May 21 (Agencies): JDS leader H.D. Kumaraswamy flew in to the national capital to meet Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul to discuss the power-sharing arrangement in Karnataka, where no party has the majority of 112 seats required to form a government. 

Kumaraswamy, whose Janata Dal Secular won 37 seats in the May 12 assembly elections, met Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and then the Congress leaders. The BSP has won one seat.

The JDS had fought the election in alliance with the BSP, and joined hands with the Congress after the results threw up a hung assembly on May 15. The Congress won 78 seats, while the BJP got 104.

State BJP chief B.S. Yeddyurappa had staked claim to form a government, but stepped down as chief minister last Saturday without facing a floor test.

Kumaraswamy, knowing that the Congress cannot form a government without his JDS, is expected to drive a hard bargain for ministerial berths and who would become the deputy chief minister.

According to sources, there is a proposal to have two deputy chief ministers to strike a balance between the two parties. Congress's G. Parameshwara is frontrunner for the deputy chief minister's post.

Kumaraswamy is scheduled to take oath as chief minister on May 23 and the floor test is expected to happen within 24 hours. Both Congress and JDS legislators will remain confined to their hotels till the floor test.

Some members of the legislative assembly will be sworn in as ministers along with Kumaraswamy on Wednesday, the sources said.

Many regional party leaders including Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal are likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony.