5 months ago
2
The enactment tussle betwixt Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy, D.K. Shivakumar, was 1 of the cardinal issues that the apical enactment of the Congress enactment discussed connected Saturday astatine Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s authoritative residence.
Party president Mallikarjun Kharge, erstwhile enactment main and Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and the wide caput in-charge of organisation K.C. Venugopal attended the closed doorway meeting.
“We discussed Karnataka besides but thing came retired of that. We volition sermon again. There volition beryllium different treatment connected Karnataka,” Mr. Venugopal told reporters aft the meeting, and described it arsenic “a wide treatment connected existent governmental situation”.
However, sources told The Hindu that Saturday’s gathering was specifically to sermon the unfastened enactment tussle successful party-ruled Karnataka. On November 26, Mr. Kharge had said that “together with Sonia ji and Rahul [Gandhi], they would find a solution”.
The enactment tussle successful Karnataka escalated aft the Congress authorities reached the halfway constituent of its 5 twelvemonth word connected November 20 and supporters of the Deputy Chief Minister started talking astir “power sharing” statement betwixt Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Mr. Shivakumar.
Admitting that determination was a enactment tussle betwixt him and his deputy, Mr. Siddaramaiah asked the apical enactment to bring the “confusion” to a close.
During a sojourn to his constituency successful Kanakapura, Mr. Shivakaumar excessively talked astir a “secret deal” among “five-six” Congress members connected the Chief Minister’s post, but said that helium did not privation to “speak publically connected it”.
However, connected the instructions from the enactment precocious command, the 2 leaders person had 2 rounds of meal meetings and the duo person tempered down their nationalist utterances connected the contented since then.
While the Siddaramaiah campy maintains that helium enjoys the enactment of 112 of the 139 enactment MLAs, those who are backing Mr. Shivakumar support that not honouring the powerfulness sharing statement would nonstop a incorrect signal.
