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NEW DELHI: Karnataka lawman main curate DK Shivakumar and his woman offered prayers astatine Mandya’s Bhoo Varaha Swamy temple connected Saturday, conscionable hours aft a meal gathering with main curate Siddaramaiah amid a powerfulness tussle betwixt the 2 leaders.“When I was successful Tihar Jail, my mother-in-law and father-in-law came to this temple 4 times,” Shivakumar told reporters, referring to his September 2019 apprehension by the Enforcement Directorate successful a money-laundering lawsuit — which the Supreme Court yet quashed successful March 2024.
The Congress leader, who besides heads the party’s authorities unit, claimed that a “friend from different party” had been urging him to sojourn the temple for the past 2 years.Shivakumar added that the sojourn was scheduled lone this morning.“When I came here, I felt a consciousness of glory. I asked the clergyman if I should bring anything, and helium said it was capable to travel for darshan. I don’t cognize if helium performed a homa (sacred occurrence ritual) to unafraid a ‘high position’ for me. All the elders and deities are looking astatine maine with love,” the lawman CM remarked.Earlier, aft his meal gathering with Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar had described the enactment talks arsenic “productive.”
The main curate had invited his lawman astatine the behest of the Congress precocious command.The powerfulness tussle betwixt the 2 dates backmost to an alleged committedness made to Shivakumar aft the Congress’ sweeping triumph implicit the BJP successful the Karnataka assembly elections successful May 2023. The enactment enactment had chosen the seasoned Siddaramaiah arsenic main minister, appointed Shivakumar his deputy, and reportedly assured a transportation of powerfulness aft 2.5 years for the remainder of the government’s five-year term.The Siddaramaiah campy — and the main curate himself — has repeatedly maintained that helium volition implicit his afloat tenure.
