Row over the Karnataka chief minister post has once again kicked up a storm following Congress minister and Siddaramaiah’s loyalist HC Mahadevappa’s remark that he will continue to be at the top post.
Not commenting on the “power-sharing formula”, Mahadevappa said Siddaramaiah will continue to be the CM of Karnataka.
Commenting on Mahadevappa, DK Shivakumar’s brother and Congress MP DK Suresh retorted that he does not entertain such statements. “I don’t know why Mahadevappa has said this. He is an eminent leader with his ideology and political power. He is a senior minister now. He has more interests in other things rather than working as a minister. That’s why he would have given such statements,” said Suresh.
Meanwhile, supporters of Shivakumar also openly expressed their views of seeing their leader as the chief minister, throwing light on the “power-sharing formula”.
“DK has helped us a lot by providing us tickets. Be it me, Nayana Motamma, Sudhakar or even helping Lakshmi Hebbalkar become a minister. I would like to ask the seer present here to bless him to become the chief minister,” said Congress HD Thammaiah at a public event.
Open Challenge to Siddaramaiah
As the infighting among the Congress leaders continued over the CM post, the BJP mocked the party once again over the issue.
Former revenue minister R Ashok posed an open challenge to Siddaramaiah to come out and reveal if there is any formula agreed upon for the CM post.
“DK Shivakumar tried everything with the high command but he was not successful. I feel DK Shivakumar is just dreaming at this point. Siddaramaiah does Chanakya politics. DK Shivakumar used to say that he plays chess, Siddaramaiah plays a game over chess. Siddaramaiah defeated HD Deve Gowda who was feared by almost all politicians, DK Shivakumar is no match to him. If there’s a power-sharing formula, I openly challenge Siddaramaiah to say that he’ll be CM for two years and leave the post later,” said R Ashok.
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