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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has often been losing his chill these days. In the latest instance connected Friday, helium appeared perturbed erstwhile a newsman asked astir a imaginable enactment alteration and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar taking his place.
When a mediaperson sought the Chief Minister’s absorption to reports claiming that the KPCC main had acceptable November 21 arsenic the day to instrumentality oath arsenic the adjacent Chief Minister, Mr. Siddaramaiah changeable back: “Has helium (Mr. Shivakumar) told you?”
When helium replied that helium had work it successful a newspaper, speedy came the Chief Minister’s reply: “Which newspaper? I did not spot it anywhere, though I work each the newspapers.”
The question was successful the discourse of speculation astir a imaginable enactment change, arsenic the Congress authorities completes the halfway people of its five-year word connected November 20. In caller days, the Chief Minister has been visibly irritated with questions connected the alleged “November Revolution” and imaginable transportation of power.
While Mr. Siddaramaiah has been claiming that helium would beryllium the Chief Minister for the afloat five-year term, his lawman Mr. Shivakumar has been bargaining hard with the enactment precocious bid to adhere to the informal power-sharing pact seemingly agreed upon erstwhile the authorities was formed successful May, 2023.
On the different hand, Mr. Shivakumar is pinning his hopes connected the enactment precocious bid to get the Chief Minister’s post, appealing to his supporters to enactment calm and relaxed.
On earlier occasions too, the Chief Minister mislaid his composure erstwhile reporters questioned him, for instance, erstwhile asked astir his alleged relation successful the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) tract allotment scam.
Again, connected September 22, during the inauguration of the Dasara festival successful Mysuru, the Chief Minister was aggravated erstwhile a restless assemblage was recovered leaving the function. He scolded persons leaving the relation midway and ordered the constabulary to intervene.
