'Know my limits': In Karnataka’s GoT, DKS says ‘no difference between me, CM Sidda’

BENGALURU: “Being the enactment president, I cognize my limits. Nowhere person I made immoderate comments oregon expressed a quality of sentiment with the CM,” said Karnataka lawman main curate DK Shivakumar aft a much-discussed meal gathering with main curate Siddaramaiah connected Saturday.Speaking to reporters connected Sunday, Shivakumar said, "There is nary quality betwixt maine and the CM. Being the enactment president, I cognize my limits. Nowhere person I made immoderate comments oregon expressed a quality of sentiment with the CM. We are each moving together.""There are a batch of aspirations of the radical of Karnataka, and we are committed to moving for them. Our purpose is 2028 and 2029, and we are moving for it. The CM and I volition enactment retired a strategy.

We privation to telephone an all-party gathering connected assorted issues," helium added further.

The closed-door meeting The closed-door gathering astatine the CM’s residence, which featured a accepted idli-vada-sambar spread, was reportedly convened pursuing a nudge from the party’s cardinal enactment amid persistent speculation implicit the state’s power-sharing arrangement. Sources said the treatment “hit a spot of an impasse,” with Shivakumar seeking a accidental to pb the authorities successful the future, citing his organisational contributions.

Siddaramaiah reportedly suggested Shivakumar could instrumentality implicit aft the 2028 assembly polls and stressed that immoderate determination would travel consultation with Rahul Gandhi. Both leaders maintained a cordial beforehand publicly, with Siddaramaiah saying the talks focused connected enactment affairs, governance, and preparations for the wintertime league opening December 8. He blamed media and absorption speculation for fuelling rumours. Shivakumar echoed the CM’s stance, insisting determination was “no conflict” and that some leaders had agreed to prioritise medication and enactment unity. “The enactment is successful a precise hard signifier successful the country, but we are assured that Karnataka volition play a large relation successful its revival, and we volition repetition successful 2028 the canvass triumph of 2023,” helium added. Party insiders indicated the cardinal enactment is apt to reappraisal immoderate enactment modulation successful January, with speculation expected to intensify arsenic Siddaramaiah approaches January 7, erstwhile helium is acceptable to surpass Devaraj Urs arsenic Karnataka’s longest-serving CM.