New Delhi: With the race for the brand new chief minister of Karnataka heating up between outdated warhorses Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar, the latter will go to Delhi on Tuesday to debate the difficulty of presidency formation within the southern state with the social gathering’s central management. Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress president, and Siddaramaiah, who’re each frontrunners for the Karnataka chief minister’s chair, had been known as by Congress central management to the nationwide capital for discussions. While Siddaramaiah arrived in Delhi on Monday afternoon amid intense lobbying for the highest publish, Shivakumar cancelled his go to citing well being points.
DK Shivakumar is scheduled to go away for Delhi from Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru by a 9:50 am flight, his workplace mentioned in a press release. The Karnataka Congress president is locked in an intense energy wrestle with Siddaramaiah over who will lead the brand new authorities, after the Congress stormed to energy by profitable 135 seats within the May 10 elections to the 224-member Assembly.
Earlier on Sunday, the Congress Legislature Party, which met at a lodge in Bengaluru, had handed a unanimous decision authorising social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge to choose who would be the subsequent chief minister of Karnataka. The three central observers of the Congress, who interacted with newly-elected social gathering MLAs on their alternative for chief minister, then briefed Kharge and submitted their report on Monday.
Congress not in a rush to decide on new Karnataka CM
AICC in-charge for Karnataka Randeep Surjewala on Monday mentioned that the social gathering was not in a rush to decide on the brand new CM and would take a call after wider consultations with state leaders.
“The observers have submitted the report to the Congress president. We will hold consultations with all senior state leaders, including Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, and after that a decision will be taken by the Congress president,” he informed reporters outdoors Kharge’s residence after the assembly.
He added that the Congress president believes that the choice ought to be taken whereas holding unity, unanimity, consensus and welfare of Kannadigas in thoughts.
Kharge is prone to take a call on who would be the subsequent chief minister of Karnataka after holding consultations with high Congress management, together with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
DK Shivakumar’s ‘stress tactic’
Amid varied claims concerning the variety of MLAs supporting him and Siddaramaiah for the Karnataka CM’s publish, DK Shivakumar on Monday mentioned that his power is 135, as underneath his presidency within the state the social gathering had gained the seats.
“We had made a one line resolution, stating we will leave the matter to party high command, after that some might have shared their personal opinion. I don’t have the strength to speak about other’s numbers, my strength is 135, I am the party president and under my presidency, the party has won 135 seats in Karnataka, against the double engine (BJP) government, the corrupt administration and suffering of the people,” he mentioned.
His transfer is now seen as a ‘stress tactic’ to claim his declare on the highest publish and signifies that the management battle within the southern state is much from over.
Siddaramaiah vs DK Shivakumar
Siddaramaiah, 75, is a pacesetter with mass attraction and has the expertise of operating a authorities of a full five-year time period from 2013-18. He can be thought-about near former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and apparently has his backing.
He, nevertheless, isn’t a lot organisationally linked with the social gathering and continues to be thought-about an outsider by a piece of Congress’s outdated guard as he was previously with the JD(S).
Shivakumar, then again, has robust organisational capabilities and is taken into account resourceful. The 61-year-old can be mentioned to be Congress’ troubleshooter throughout robust instances and has the backing of the dominant Vokkaliga group, its influential seers, and leaders.
