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The power-sharing tussle wrong the Karnataka Congress appeared to escalate connected Tuesday arsenic Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar skipped a pre-Budget gathering of 2 cardinal departments and travelled to New Delhi, sharpening absorption connected interior enactment tensions.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, responding to questions connected the enactment row, reiterated that the enactment precocious command’s determination would beryllium final. “Why bash you support asking? If Mr. Shivakumar has said something, inquire him,” helium said, adding that helium would not sojourn New Delhi unless formally invited, citing Budget-related engagements successful Bengaluru.
‘Refrain from comment’
Mr. Shivakumar, meanwhile, cautioned enactment leaders against making nationalist statements connected enactment change, stating that specified remarks would lone harm the party.
He said AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge had directed leaders to refrain from commenting connected power-sharing issues.
“I don’t fell anything. The Chief Minister and I cognize what we discussed, and it was successful consultation with the enactment precocious command,” Mr Shivakumar said, successful an evident notation to the power-sharing knowing reached during the enactment of the Congress authorities successful May 2023.
‘DKS informed me’
Explaining the Deputy Chief Minister’s lack from the pre-Budget gathering of the Water Resources and Bengaluru Urban Development Departments, Mr. Siddaramaiah said Mr. Shivakumar had informed him astir his question to Delhi for AICC-related meetings concerning the upcoming Assam Assembly elections.
Mr. Shivakumar, who has been appointed the Congress predetermination successful complaint for Assam, said departmental enactment would not beryllium affected by his absence. “The Chief Minister is the president of the Water Resources Department. Officers are contiguous and everything is planned,” helium said.
However, his Delhi sojourn has erstwhile again brought interior Congress dynamics successful Karnataka nether the spotlight. Party sources said Mr. Shivakumar is expected to sermon governmental developments successful the State with elder leaders.
Congress sources besides indicated that nary enactment alteration oregon Cabinet reshuffle is apt successful the coming months, astatine slightest until the completion of Assembly elections successful Assam, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
