'No agreement': Sidda rejects power-sharing theory; K'taka CM row intensifies

NEW DELHI: Karnataka main minister Siddaramaiah connected Friday dismissed claims of a two-and-a-half-year “power-sharing arrangement” wrong the authorities government. Facing repeated questions from the Opposition implicit his tenure connected the past time of the Legislative Assembly league successful Belagavi, Siddaramaiah said determination was nary specified statement successful spot and made it wide that helium would stay the CM until the enactment precocious bid decides otherwise.“First, the radical indispensable bless us. Then the legislators elite the person successful the Legislative Party meeting, and aft that, the precocious bid decides. That is each I person said. Even now, I americium the Chief Minister, and I volition stay the Chief Minister until the precocious bid decides otherwise,” helium said.Reacting to Siddaramaiah’s remarks, BJP MLA and Leader of the Opposition successful the Assembly, R Ashoka, questioned the claim, saying, “You were elected for 5 years by the Legislative Party. What astir 2.5 years?”Siddaramaiah responded, “I ne'er said thing astir 2 and a fractional years.

There is nary specified statement arsenic 2 and fractional years.”Earlier this week, the CM reiterated that helium would implicit his afloat term. “We volition implicit the afloat word and instrumentality to powerfulness successful 2028...I’m the CM till the precocious bid says,” Siddaramaiah said.Speculation implicit a imaginable alteration successful leadership, with Karnataka lawman main curate DK Shivakumar taking implicit the CM spot successful January gained momentum implicit the past fewer days. The

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aboriginal sought to enactment the rumours to remainder aft Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar met for meal astatine each other’s residences and addressed the media unneurotic to task enactment unity.

DK Shivakumar besides dismissed speculation surrounding a reported meal meeting. “Who said? There was nary meal gathering oregon anything. I had gone for a meal to my erstwhile DCC president to wage respect, they contributed a batch to Karnataka, Belgavi. So to grant them, I went on with my friends. There is nary different politics,” helium said.