Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said the 2023 assembly elections in Karnataka will be his last but will remain in politics. The leader of opposition in the state assembly said he had not yet decided from which constituency he would contest the next election, and would follow the party’s decision regarding the Congress chief minister’s face for the election.
“I will be in politics, but electoral politics – most likely the next assembly election will be the last,” Siddaramaiah told reporters in his native village Siddaramahundi here. He said that there is still one more year left in the assembly elections and any decision is yet to be taken in this regard.
Party workers and well wishers from Varuna, Hunsur, Chamarajpet, Badami, Kolar, Hebbal, Koppal and Chamundeshwari are asking me to contest from their constituencies. I am yet to decide where I am from (to contest the election).’ Old Mysore region or somewhere in Bengaluru for the next assembly elections.
His loyalist and Chamarajpet MLA BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan, who is among those projecting him as the chief minister’s face for the next assembly elections, which created some differences within the party, vacated the constituency for the leader of the Congress Legislature Party. is also offered. Siddaramaiah has already said that he will not contest again from Chamundeshwari assembly constituency in Mysore, where he tasted defeat during the 2018 assembly elections.
On contesting from Chamundeshwari constituency, he said, “I lost in the last election in the same constituency where I got my political rebirth. But that doesn’t mean I will forget the people of Chamundeswari. They gave me five Had won the bar and gave me political power to this level.” The then chief minister Siddaramaiah had lost to JD(S) GT Deve Gowda in Chamundeshwari by a margin of over 36,042 votes in 2018. However, he won from Badami, another constituency. from where he defeated BJP’s B Sriramulu by a margin of just 1,696 votes.
Debuting in the Legislative Assembly in 1983, Siddaramaiah was elected from Chamundeshwari on Lok Dal Party ticket. He has won from this constituency five times and tasted defeat thrice. After delimitation in 2008 became the constituency of neighboring Varuna, Siddaramaiah represented it in the 2018 assembly elections until vacating the seat for his son Dr Yatindra (MLA) and reverting to his old constituency of Chamundeshwari.
Ahead of the May 2018 assembly elections, Siddaramaiah had said that this would be his last election. Earlier, even during the 2013 assembly elections, he had said that this was his last election and became the chief minister after the election. ,
Asked whether he would ask for the party’s chief minister’s post to be announced before the 2023 elections, as was done in Punjab, Siddaramaiah said, “I will not ask for such things. I will follow the decision of the Congress high command.” ” It is no secret that Siddaramaiah, who was the chief minister between 2013-2018, is fueling his ambition for a second term if the party wins the next assembly election. State Congress President DK Shivakumar has similar aspirations, this has started a one-sided game between the two leaders.
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