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D.K. Shivakumar | Photo Credit: record photo
Amid speech of a imaginable enactment change, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, successful antithetic contexts, weighed successful connected the grade to which enactment of MLAs and blessings of precocious bid substance successful the prime of the idiosyncratic for the apical post, taking divergent views.
Not astir numbers
In an interrogation with a backstage TV transmission here, Mr Shivakumar said, “In the Congress, nary determination is taken connected numbers.”
He contended that the enactment precocious bid would instrumentality a determination connected the matter, irrespective of the number of MLAs supporting the Chief Minister.
“I cognize the Congress, and ever decisions are not taken based connected numbers of enactment MLAs,” helium said.
Both matter
Speaking astatine Rabkavi-Banahatti successful Bagalkot district, Mr. Siddaramaiah took a antithetic view, arguing that some matter.
“The precocious bid is the eventual authorization successful the party. But the opinions of enactment MLAs is important too. Appointment of a Chief Minister oregon different issues are decided based connected these 2 factors,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said.
He further said, “For each important decisions, determination should beryllium statement of the MLAs and the blessings of the precocious command.”
Meanwhile, the basal of Mr. Shivakumar has drawn reactions from Ministers.
Home Minister G. Parameshwara and IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge sharply reacted to Mr. Shivkumar’s comment, saying the enactment precocious bid had been taking decisions based connected enactment of legislators.
Observer’s role
Dr. Parameshwara said the party’s cardinal leaders deputed observers oregon wide secretaries to the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) gathering to cognize the pulse of MLAs and elicit views of legislators connected the main ministerial candidate. Generally, the campaigner who secured a bulk of enactment from MLAs became the Chief Minister, helium said.
Mr. Kharge endorsed the sentiment of Dr Parameshwara and said, “Sometimes the fig is more, sometimes the fig is few. Observers taxable a study connected the overall situation and situation of the CLP meeting, and past the precocious bid takes the decision.”
Apparently extending enactment to Mr Shivakumar, Women and Child Welfare Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar said, “The enactment precocious bid volition instrumentality a decision” connected the enactment change.
Mr. Shivakumar, who has been nursing the ambition of becoming Chief Minister since the enactment secured a bulk successful the 2023 Assembly polls, said the alleged “November Kranthi” was a specified speculation and “the Delhi leaders volition instrumentality a telephone connected the alteration of leadership”.
