'Word' war: K'taka CM tussle turns ugly; Sidda takes open potshot at DKS

NEW DELHI: The powerfulness tussle for the apical station successful Karnataka Congress turned disfigured connected Thursday with main curate Siddaramaiah taking unfastened potshots astatine his lawman DK Shivakumar. Hours aft Shivakumar posted a cryptic connection reminding Siddaramaiah and the Congress precocious bid to "keep one's connection and locomotion the talk", the main curate has deed backmost utilizing "word play" to people his deputy. Earlier today, Shivakumar successful a station connected X wrote, "WORD POWER IS WORLD POWER. The biggest unit successful the satellite is to support one’s word. Be it a judge, president oregon anyone other including myself, everyone has to locomotion the talk. Word powerfulness is satellite power."

The authorities Congress president, who is eyeing the apical station arsenic portion of a "secret deal" successful 2023 for rotational CM pursuing the party's sweeping triumph successful the assembly elections, wants Siddaramaiah to honour the committedness made past by the enactment leadership.

Siddaramaiah, who has often asserted that helium volition implicit his word of 5 years, made an absorbing effect to DKS message. The main curate utilized the aforesaid words to instrumentality potshots astatine his deputy. "A Word is not powerfulness unless it betters the World for the people. The mandate fixed by the radical of Karnataka is not a moment, but a work that lasts 5 afloat years. The Congress party, including me, is walking the speech for our radical with compassion, consistency, and courage.

Our Word to Karnataka is not a slogan, it means the World to us," Siddaramaiah wrote connected X.

Siddaramaiah past went connected to database the promises that helium had fulfilled arsenic the main curate successful his 2 tenures. This unfastened societal media "word" warfare betwixt the 2 apical authorities leaders marks a definite displacement successful their approach. Till now, it was the supporters of the 2 leaders who were engaging successful verbal spats. But with Siddaramaiah completing two-and-a-half years arsenic main minister, DKS has intelligibly upped the ante. The shot is successful the tribunal of Congress precocious command, but the unfastened spat betwixt the 2 leaders could good harm the prospects of the grand-old-party adjacent if it manages to prevention its authorities for now.