Bengaluru, May 17 (PTI) Two Ministers within the outgoing BJP authorities on Wednesday sought in charge senior Congress chief Siddaramaiah for the defection of a bunch of his social gathering’s MLAs that led to the collapse of the H D Kumaraswamy-led coalition authorities in 2019 after being in energy for 14 months. Okay Sudhakar and S T Somashekar, who had been Health and Cooperation Ministers respectively within the Basavaraj Bommai authorities, raised the problem at a time when Siddaramaiah is in a stiff competitors with state Congress president D Okay Shivakumar to develop into the Chief Minister, after the Congress received the Assembly polls by securing 135 seats. Sudhakar and Somashekar had been earlier with the Congress. They had been among the many 17 Congress-JD(S) legislators who stop and defected to BJP that led to the collapse of the coalition authorities and paved the best way for BJP to return to energy.
“During the JDS-Congress coalition govt in 2018, whenever MLAs (Congress) went to the then Coordination Committee Chairman Siddaramaiah with their concerns, he used to express his helplessness and say that he has no say in the govt and his constituency/district works itself are stalled,” Sudhakar claimed.
Further, Siddaramaiah used to guarantee MLAs to attend until 2019 Lok Sabha polls and are available what might he will not enable the then coalition authorities to proceed even for a single day after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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Ultimately, some MLAs together with him needed to inevitably stop Congress and return to the folks in bypolls, to guard the ‘karyakartas’ and supporters of their constituencies, he mentioned, and requested “Can Shri Siddaramaiah deny the fact that he had no role, implicitly or explicitly, in this move by Congress MLAs?”
Somashekar mentioned, regardless of being the Chairman of the Coordination Committee Siddaramaiah at all times expressed his helplessness to deal with the considerations of MLAs throughout the Congress-JDS coalition authorities. “No one can deny the truth that this pushed some of us to quit the party and go for bypolls,” he mentioned.
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Sudhakar and Somashekar, after defecting to BJP, contested the bypolls on the social gathering ticket and received, and likewise went on to develop into Ministers within the authorities. Sudhakar misplaced the May 10 Assembly polls from Chikkaballapura seat, whereas Somashekar received the Yeshwanthpur in Bengaluru.
