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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Saturday met Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi successful New Delhi and reportedly discussed his connection connected the State Cabinet reshuffle.
According to sources successful the Congress, Mr. Siddaramaiah, accompanied by Energy Minister K.J. George, held a 30-minute treatment with Mr. Gandhi astatine erstwhile AICC main Sonia Gandhi’s residence.
Mr. Gandhi reportedly told the Chief Minister to sermon the connection connected the Cabinet reshuffle with AICC main Mallikarjun Kharge.
Mr Siddaramaiah is expected to conscionable Mr. Kharge successful Delhi connected Monday. However, erstwhile asked by reporters, the Chief Minister said that everything was “speculation successful media”.
Talks connected Bihar
Sources successful the enactment said Mr. Gandhi met Mr Siddaramaiah on with Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and discussed the party’s dismal show successful Bihar.
Mr. Gandhi reportedly told some the Chief Ministers to guarantee amended medication successful their respective States to clasp powerfulness aft the extremity the contiguous term. He besides told the to measurement up run against “vote theft” against the Election Commission.
Dy. CM besides successful Delhi
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC main D.K. Shivakumar, who is seeking the Chief Minister’s post, besides landed successful the nationalist superior connected Saturday and is expected to conscionable Mr. Gandhi and different elder leaders of the enactment later.
When asked astir Cabinet reshuffle, Mr. Shivakumar said, “I volition not talk to the media connected the issue. I volition talk to precocious bid erstwhile asked.”
While determination has been aggravated speculation successful Karnataka implicit the past fewer weeks connected the imaginable alteration of enactment arsenic the Congress authorities reaches its half-term mark, the abysmal electoral show of the enactment and its allies successful the Bihar Assembly elections has enactment a question people connected specified possibilities.
