Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Thursday asked legislators not to project him as the chief ministerial face for the 2023 Assembly polls, amid growing differences within the party over the issue, which has led to him and state unit president DK. One-sided game has started between Shivakumar. . His statement came amid a growing list of MLAs who openly supported him as the CM face despite the party leadership’s decree, which angered Shivakumar, who also has ambitions to become chief minister.
Siddaramaiah said, “I don’t know, I don’t want to react on that… I never said that I will be the chief minister, but I will still request the MLAs not to make statements as the next chief minister.” Said in response to a question on Shivakumar’s statement in which he had asked him to rein in MLAs projecting him as the next CM. On his return from New Delhi after meeting the party’s national leaders, Shivakumar said on Wednesday that Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah would look into the open statements of some of the MLAs.
“… the party high command has said what it has to do, I have also seen statements of some MLAs in the media. Legislature party leader (Siddaramaiah) will look into it. If he doesn’t, the party will look into it. Is for.” He had said that he was in no hurry to become the chief minister and his aim was to bring the party to power. Siddaramaiah, who is now the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, however, dismissed statements by some MLAs projecting him as the next Chief Minister and maintaining it as their personal views, said on Wednesday, “I will Can’t do anything… I’m not worried about it.” Congress MLAs BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan (Chamrajpet), Raghavendra Hitnal (Koppal), JN Ganesh (Kampali) and Bhima Naik (Hagribommanahalli), S Ramappa (Harihar) and R Akhand Srinivasa Murthy (Pulkeshinagar) openly expressed their views in favor of Siddaramaiah. Opinion expressed. as the next CM.
His statements came despite AICC state in-charge general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala and Shivakumar’s orders not to make such open remarks to party legislators and leaders. The move by Siddaramaiah loyalists is said to have gained momentum after a tweet from the official Twitter handle of Karnataka Congress last month said that the Covid-19 pandemic would have been under control if Shivakumar was the CM.
The tweet was immediately deleted, but not before angering the Siddaramaiah camp. Party sources said that with the growing political unity between the two leaders, the issue could become contentious for the Congress in the coming days.
Siddaramaiah had previously led the Congress government between 2013-18, in which Shivakumar, often referred to as the party’s troubleshooter, was a minister. PTI KSU RS SS.
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