'DKS will be CM ...': Cong MLA reignites rumours; confirms dy CM hosted dinner

NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress MLA Iqbal Hussain connected Friday claimed that lawman main curate D K Shivakumar volition go main curate aft the ongoing wintertime league of the authorities legislature, adding substance to speculation implicit a imaginable enactment alteration wrong the ruling party.Speaking to reporters, the Ramanagara MLA confirmed that helium attended a late-night meal with Shivakumar and respective ministers and legislators. He dismissed suggestions that the gathering was a amusement of strength. "MLAs from assorted constituencies person travel for the session; it is simply a uncommon accidental for each of america to meet. During the session, we conscionable each other. We had meal together. What's determination successful that? Can having nutrient unneurotic beryllium called a amusement of strength?" helium said.Asked whether Shivakumar shared immoderate governmental developments during the gathering, Hussain responded, "I'm giving the bully news. He volition go (CM) aft the session, helium volition become. What's incorrect with it?" He added, "....Shivakumar volition get a chance, helium volition go the main curate now."Hussain said 50 to 55 Congress legislators attended the dinner. While enactment leaders described it arsenic a casual meeting, it took spot amid heightened speculation implicit a powerfulness tussle betwixt Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, peculiarly aft the authorities crossed the halfway people of its five-year word connected November 20.

Reacting to remarks that Shivakumar's elevation would beryllium connected destiny, Hussain said, "Everything volition hap if the deity has written successful one's fate.... We are each assured that Shivakumar has a accidental for his efforts, struggle, and organising the party. We person told the aforesaid to the precocious command, the precocious bid volition decide."The MLA reiterated that the Congress remains disciplined and that the last determination connected the main ministership rests with the cardinal leadership.

"Numbers are not important here. We should beryllium committed to the determination they make. They person said that everyone should abide by the enactment subject and abide by their decision. This is the enactment culture, too. We volition abide by their decision," helium said.The Congress precocious bid has precocious attempted to incorporate the enactment friction, with some Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar holding meal meetings astatine each other's residences.

The motion was seen arsenic a awesome that Siddaramaiah would proceed arsenic main curate for now, peculiarly with the Belagavi legislature league underway. The session, which began connected December 8, volition proceed until December 19.

Deputy main curate D K Shivakumar and implicit 30 Congress legislators, including immoderate ministers, met for a meal precocious connected Thursday night, enactment sources told PTI.Ministers K H Muniyappa, Mankal Vaidya, Dr M C Sudhakar, MLAs N A Haris, Ramesh Bandisiddegowda, H C Balakrishna, Ganesh Hukkeri, Darshan Dhruvanarayana, Ashok Kumar Rai, K Y Nanjegowda were among those contiguous successful the meeting, the sources added.Expelled BJP MLAs ST Somashekhar and Shivaram Hebbar besides attended the dinner, they said.The meal gathering came a time aft CM Siddaramaiah, on with ministers and a fewer legislators considered adjacent to him, met for a meal hosted by erstwhile Belagavi North MLA Feroz Sait.Though leaders word it a casual meal meeting, speculation is rife arsenic it had taken spot amid a powerfulness tussle successful the ruling party, implicit the CM post.There were speculations astir a alteration successful main curate erstwhile the Congress authorities reached the halfway people of its five-year word connected November 20, arsenic it was believed that determination was a powersharing statement betwixt Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar aft the expansive aged enactment won the Assembly predetermination successful 2023.As the authorities crossed this important date, activities intensified successful Congress, and some the CM and the Deputy CM met implicit meal astatine each other's residences, connected the instructions of the precocious command. This was seen arsenic a determination to intermission the enactment tussle betwixt the 2 and to awesome Siddaramaiah's continuation arsenic the CM for the clip being, particularly up of the Belagavi legislature session.