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Amidst enactment tussle successful the Congress, Deputy Chief Minister and main ministerial aspirant D.K. Shivakumar who was successful Delhi to conscionable Union Ministers, amazed everyone connected Wednesday by dismissing speculation astir enactment alteration successful Karnataka and asserted that determination was nary tussle for the main ministerial post.
“Where is this speculation? (about alteration of Chief Minister) The speculation is lone successful the media; determination is nary speculation successful the enactment oregon anyplace successful the government,” Mr Shivakumar maintained, portion addressing a property league astatine Karnataka Bhavan successful New Delhi.
In reply to a question connected whether helium would beryllium blessed continuing arsenic Deputy Chief Minister for the remaining afloat term, Mr Shivakumar said, “I emotion being a enactment idiosyncratic much than holding immoderate presumption successful the party. That is simply a imperishable presumption for me. Since 1980, I person been a enactment idiosyncratic and volition proceed to beryllium a enactment idiosyncratic successful the aboriginal arsenic well.”
In reply to a question on whether helium would beryllium gathering cardinal leaders of the party, helium said, “I americium not gathering anyone successful the enactment precocious command. I americium not gathering anyone due to the fact that I don’t deliberation anyone is here. I volition not conscionable immoderate nationalist leaders successful Delhi, arsenic nary 1 is presently successful the city. AICC main Mallikarjun Kharge is successful Bengaluru. Senior Congress person Rahul Gandhi arrived conscionable yesterday, and I don’t privation to disturb him.”
It whitethorn beryllium noted that the tussle implicit enactment had intensified during the precocious concluded Winter Session of the State legislature successful Belagavi aft Chief Minister Siddaramaiah declared connected the level of the Assembly that helium would implicit the afloat word arsenic Chief Minister and ruled retired immoderate pact connected power-sharing aft the mid-term. Mr. Shivakumar had past sternly reacted to this by asserting that specified a pact so existed.
Asked astir caller meal meetings betwixt Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and himself, Mr. Shivakumar said, “It’s routine; we conscionable you, we conscionable the Chief Minister, we conscionable the communal man, we conscionable businessmen, bureaucrats…all meeting, sharing, caring... each portion of life.”
Asked astir powerfulness sharing aft completion of the mid-term of the five-year word of the government, helium said, “I can’t disclose what each was discussed at specified meetings. We are each agreed and volition proceed to enactment together. We brought the enactment to powerfulness together. Every enactment idiosyncratic successful the State has fixed their sweat and efforts, and each of them person supported me. I americium grateful to the radical of the State for giving america a monolithic mandate. Whatever we promised, we person delivered, and we volition proceed to bash so.”
He besides said, “The precocious bid has fixed america a escaped hand. It is not conscionable Shivakumar oregon Siddaramaiah — each legislators and candidates person made sacrifices to bring america to power.”
On questions related to MP Priyanka Gandhi’s relation oregon speculation astir her being projected arsenic premier ministerial candidate, Mr Shivakumar said, “I americium not alert of these issues. My person is the AICC president, and my Leader of Opposition [in the Lok Sabha] is Rahul Gandhi.”
The Deputy Chief Minister claimed that his sojourn to Delhi was purely administrative and not political.
In a related improvement successful Bengaluru, Home Minister G. Parameshwara connected Wednesday said the Congress precocious command’s determination was last connected the Chief Minister’s post.
He was responding to a question astir whether the Congress president was unhappy with the developments successful the State Congress, amid the ongoing powerfulness tussle involving Mr. Siddaramaiah and Mr. Shivakumar.
“He (Mr. Kharge) is the AICC president, which means helium is our precocious command. Along with him, Mr. Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are successful the leadership. Whatever they determine is final,” Dr. Parameshwara told reporters.
