CM and his deputy use word play and pun to target each other amid leadership battle (Page one)

The intensifying powerfulness tussle betwixt Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his lawman D.K. Shivakumar moved to the societal media connected Thursday, with some exchanging cryptic and coded messages connected the level X, targeting each other.

In what seemed similar a veiled notation to the alleged power-sharing statement struck successful 2023 and a excavation astatine the Chief Minister and elder leaders of the party, Mr. Shivakumar said connected X, “Word powerfulness is satellite power.” He further said, “Keeping one’s connection is the top spot successful the world... The biggest unit successful the satellite was to support one’s word... Be it a judge, president, oregon anyone else, including myself, everyone has to locomotion the talk. Word powerfulness is satellite power.” He, however, aboriginal refused to admit the post.

Responding to it with a play of words, Mr. Siddaramaiah said hours aboriginal connected X, “A Word is not powerfulness unless it betters the satellite for the people.”

Listing retired his achievements successful the erstwhile (2013-2018) and the contiguous terms, helium named the 5 guarantees delivered by him successful the existent tenure and different societal payment schemes implemented done his career.

“We transformed our guarantees into action; not successful words, but connected the ground,” helium said. “Our Word to Karnataka is not a slogan, it means the World to us.”

These developments travel adjacent arsenic the Congress precocious bid is acceptable to summon some the leaders to New Delhi to enactment an extremity to the situation that is damaging the representation of the authorities successful Karnataka, a cardinal State for the party.