‘So-and-so never named': Siddaramaiah clarifies son’s successor comment; claims remark 'twisted'

NEW DELHI: Karnataka main ministerSiddaramaiah connected Friday dismissed reports that his lad Yathindra Siddaramaiah had named a successor, saying the remarks were “twisted” and that Yathindra had simply spoken astir principles.“I spoke to him (Yathindra) and asked what precisely helium had said. He told maine helium spoke lone astir principles and did not accidental that ‘so-and-so’ should go main minister,” Siddaramaiah told reporters successful Bengaluru, arsenic quoted by PTI.The clarification came aft Yathindra’s connection earlier this week stirred speculation wrong the Congress implicit the enactment question successful Karnataka. Speaking astatine Chikkodi successful Belagavi territory connected Wednesday, Yathindra had said, “He (Siddaramaiah) is astatine the fag extremity of his governmental life. At specified a time, a person is needed to usher and pb those who person progressive thinking, ideologically.” He went connected to praise Minister

Satish Jarkiholi

arsenic a person with akin ideological commitment, calling him a “role model” for young politicians.The remarks were wide interpreted arsenic an effort to task Jarkiholi arsenic Siddaramaiah’s governmental successor, amid renewed speculation that lawman main curate D K Shivakumar mightiness instrumentality implicit the apical station successful November arsenic portion of an informal “rotational main minister” knowing reached successful 2023. Siddaramaiah, however, has repeatedly said helium intends to implicit his afloat five-year term.When asked wherefore specified statements were being made astatine a delicate time, the main curate retorted, “You radical bash not enactment quiescent and support asking specified questions contempt saying ‘no’.”

Deputy main curate Shivakumar, meanwhile, refrained from commenting straight connected Yathindra’s remarks. “I americium not going to talk now, but I volition talk to whomever it is that should beryllium spoken to,” helium told reporters, erstwhile asked if disciplinary enactment was being considered.Earlier, 2 Congress MLAs — H D Ranganath and H A Iqbal Hussain — were served notices for suggesting that Shivakumar should go main minister. Yathindra aboriginal clarified that determination was nary treatment wrong the enactment astir a enactment change, calling the reports “mere speculation.”