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NEW DELHI: The tempest implicit the main ministerial station resurfaced again aft Congress MLA H A Iqbal Hussain connected Saturday claimed that D K Shivakumar volition instrumentality implicit the apical occupation connected January 6.Hussain said that DKS should beryllium made the main curate and that CM Siddaramaiah should vacate the station for him. He predicted that “there is simply a 99 per cent chance” that DKS volition go CM connected January 6.When asked astir the value of the date, helium said, “I don’t know. It’s conscionable a random number. Everybody is saying this. It tin either beryllium January 6 oregon 9. These are the 2 dates.”Hussain has been demanding that Shivakumar beryllium made the main minister. On Friday, helium had made his privation public.This comes a time aft DKS met implicit 30 Congress legislators and ministers for a meal gathering precocious Thursday nighttime successful Belagavi, amid ongoing speculation astir imaginable enactment changes successful the authorities government.According to quality bureau PTI sources, the meal gathering included salient ministers K H Muniyappa, Mankal Vaidya and Dr M C Sudhakar, and respective MLAs, including N A Haris, Ramesh Bandisiddegowda, H C Balakrishna, Ganesh Hukkeri, Darshan Dhruvanarayana, Ashok Kumar Rai and K Y Nanjegowda.As the Congress authorities reached the halfway people successful the state, reports quoting Congress sources suggested that MLAs and MLCs from Shivakumar’s faction had camped successful Delhi to propulsion the enactment precocious bid to marque him the adjacent main minister.
DK Shivakumar further fuelled speculation aft claiming that determination had so been “a confidential knowing connected enactment modulation among five-six leaders” soon aft the Congress won a landslide triumph successful the 2023 elections.The lawman main curate made the archetypal notation to the powerfulness pact but stopped abbreviated of divulging much details. “This is confidential. I don’t privation to talk publically connected this,” helium said.Amid the ongoing speculation, the enactment precocious bid had precocious instructed some Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar to conscionable implicit meal astatine each other’s residences. This determination was seen arsenic an effort to intermission the enactment tussle betwixt the 2 leaders.These meal meetings were besides interpreted arsenic a awesome of Siddaramaiah’s continuation arsenic main curate for the contiguous future, peculiarly up of the Belagavi legislature session.
