TUMAKURU: A day after the Congress romped to victory within the Karnataka Assembly elections, the get together’s state unit president D Okay Shivakumar on Sunday hinted that he’s within the chief ministerial race saying he took everybody alongside and by no means sought something for himself. He additionally brushed apart speculations about variations between him and former chief minister Siddaramaiah.
Speaking to reporters at Nonavinakere right here, Shivakumar stated the Congress and the Legislature Party will resolve the following chief minister of Karnataka. On the query that those that toiled also needs to get desire as a substitute of those that are preferred by the individuals, Shivakumar stated when Siddaramaiah and Dinesh Gundu Rao had resigned because the Congress Legislature Party president and head of the state unit respectively after the get together’s rout in 2019 by-elections, then Congress nationwide president Sonia Gandhi had reposed religion in him and made him president.
Shivakumar additionally recalled that when he was in jail in a cash laundering case, Gandhi had visited him to point out her assist. “I had not done anything wrong for myself. Whatever I did was for the party. All my sufferings were for the party,” he asserted. The Congress state chief, who received the Assembly election on Saturday from Kanakapura, stated he had toiled day and night time whereas taking everybody alongside.
“Everyone was saying that there are differences between me and Siddaramaiah but let me tell you not a single iota of difference is there. I did not give anyone a chance. I just kept myself grounded and walked my path,” Shivakumar added. The Congress received the Karnataka Assembly elections with a thumping majority by profitable 135 out of 224 seats whereas the ruling BJP might garner solely 66 seats.
