No chair in Karnataka is shaking, all are strong, says Shivakumar

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar connected Sunday dismissed speculation implicit instability successful the Karnataka government, asserting that the State authorities is unchangeable and that “all chairs are strong”.

Speaking to mediapersons astatine Mudgal successful Lingsugur taluk of Raichur territory aft attending the wedding ceremonial of the girl of the erstwhile MLA D.S. Hoolageri, Mr. Shivakumar reacted sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that the Chief Minister’s seat successful Karnataka is “shaking”.

“We bash not cognize what the Prime Minister is seeing. No seat successful Karnataka is shaking. All chairs are strong,” helium said.

Mr. Shivakumar besides expressed heavy grief implicit the decease of Minister D. Sudhakar, describing him arsenic a adjacent subordinate and a person with a ample heart.

“Sudhakar should person been with america for the inauguration of the Upper Bhadra Project. Whenever helium met maine oregon the Chief Minister, helium ever spoke astir improvement issues successful his territory and the problems of the poor,” helium said.

The Deputy Chief Minister said that Sudhakar was hospitalised astir a period agone pursuing genu symptom and aboriginal developed a lung corruption aft surgery, starring to deterioration successful his condition.

“Doctors and the authorities made each imaginable effort, but we could not prevention him,” helium said.

Recalling Sudhakar’s publication to the cooperative sector, Mr. Shivakumar said that helium served arsenic president of the District Central Cooperative Bank and arsenic manager of the Apex Bank, too moving to unite legislators of Chitradurga territory for the Upper Bhadra Project.

“He belonged to the Jain assemblage but had the quality to transportation radical from each communities unneurotic with affection. His decease is simply a large nonaccomplishment to the government, the enactment and the district. Personally, it is simply a large nonaccomplishment to me,” helium said.

Mr. Shivakumar said that the Minister worked with a tone of sacrifice for some the enactment and the authorities and adjacent gave up a portfolio for Minister Ramalinga Reddy.

Responding to questions connected drinking h2o scarcity, Mr. Shivakumar said that providing drinking h2o remained a precedence for his department.

“I volition talk to officials and instrumentality immoderate measures are indispensable to code the issue,” helium said.

Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi, the erstwhile Minister Amaregouda Bayyapur, Maski MLA Basanagouda Turvihal and MLCs Sharanu Gowda Patil Bayyapur and Basanagouda Badarli were present.