Outgoing Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s Delhi flight diverted to Jaipur amid heavy rain

BENGALURU: A peculiar formation carrying outgoing CM Siddaramaiah was diverted to Jaipur connected Thursday owed to adverse upwind conditions successful Delhi, officials said.Several elder Congress leaders and Karnataka ministers were onboard the flight, including authorities in-charge AICC General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, ministers KJ George and Byarthi Suresh, ineligible advisor AS Ponnanna, Legislative Council subordinate Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah, and AICC Secretary Abhishek Dutt.

Siddaramaiah was connected his mode to Delhi to conscionable the enactment precocious bid hours aft resigning from his post.The formation was primitively scheduled to onshore astatine IGI airport, but owed to dense rain successful Delhi, it was diverted to Jaipur airport.Earlier successful the day, Siddaramaiah addressed a packed property league soon aft submitting his resignation to the governor’s Special Secretary astatine Lok Bhavan.Special Secretary Prabhu Shankar received the resignation successful the lack of politician Thaawarchand Gehlot, who was retired of the state. "I person tendered my resignation from the main minister's post," the 77-year-old person said, portion expressing assurance that the politician would judge his resignation arsenic per law provisions.Siddaramaiah besides said helium had made it wide connected respective occasions that helium would resign whenever directed by the enactment precocious command."The precocious bid directed maine 2 days agone to measurement down, and accordingly, I submitted my resignation today. I got the accidental to service the radical of Karnataka twice, for which I convey Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge," helium said.