Congress MLA Claims D Okay Shivakumar Set to Turn out to be Karnataka CM After Winter Meeting Session

NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress MLA Iqbal Hussain on Friday claimed that deputy chief minister D Okay Shivakumar will turn into chief minister after the continued winter session of the state legislature, including gasoline to hypothesis over a potential management change throughout the ruling occasion.Talking to reporters, the Ramanagara MLA confirmed that he attended a late-night dinner with Shivakumar and a number of other ministers and legislators. He dismissed recommendations that the assembly was a present of power. “MLAs from numerous constituencies have come for the session; it’s a uncommon alternative for all of us to fulfill. In the course of the session, we meet one another. We had dinner collectively. What’s there in that? Can having meals collectively be known as a present of power?” he stated.Requested whether or not Shivakumar shared any political developments through the gathering, Hussain responded, “I am giving the excellent news. He’ll turn into (CM) after the session, he’ll turn into. What’s incorrect with it?” He added, “….Shivakumar will get an opportunity, he’ll turn into the chief minister now.”Hussain stated 50 to 55 Congress legislators attended the dinner. Whereas occasion leaders described it as an informal assembly, it came about amid heightened hypothesis over an influence tussle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, significantly after the federal government crossed the midway mark of its five-year time period on November 20.Reacting to remarks that Shivakumar’s elevation would rely upon future, Hussain stated, “The whole lot will occur if the god has written in a single’s destiny…. We’re all assured that Shivakumar has an opportunity for his efforts, wrestle, and organising the occasion. We have now instructed the identical to the excessive command, the excessive command will determine.”The MLA reiterated that the Congress stays disciplined and that the ultimate determination on the chief ministership rests with the central management. “Numbers aren’t vital right here. We must be dedicated to the choice they make. They’ve stated that everybody ought to abide by the occasion self-discipline and abide by their determination. That is the occasion tradition, too. We are going to abide by their determination,” he stated.The Congress excessive command has just lately tried to comprise the management friction, with each Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar holding breakfast conferences at one another’s residences. The gesture was seen as a sign that Siddaramaiah would proceed as chief minister for now, significantly with the Belagavi legislature session underway. The session, which started on December 8, will proceed till December 19.

Deputy chief minister D Okay Shivakumar and over 30 Congress legislators, together with some ministers, met for a dinner late on Thursday night time, occasion sources instructed PTI.Ministers Okay H Muniyappa, Mankal Vaidya, Dr M C Sudhakar, MLAs N A Haris, Ramesh Bandisiddegowda, H C Balakrishna, Ganesh Hukkeri, Darshan Dhruvanarayana, Ashok Kumar Rai, Okay Y Nanjegowda had been amongst these current within the assembly, the sources added.Expelled BJP MLAs ST Somashekhar and Shivaram Hebbar additionally attended the dinner, they stated.The dinner assembly got here a day after CM Siddaramaiah, together with ministers and some legislators thought-about near him, met for a dinner hosted by former Belagavi North MLA Feroz Sait.Although leaders time period it an informal dinner assembly, hypothesis is rife because it had taken place amid an influence tussle within the ruling occasion, over the CM submit.There have been speculations a few change in chief minister when the Congress authorities reached the midway mark of its five-year time period on November 20, because it was believed that there was a powersharing settlement between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar after the grand outdated occasion received the Meeting election in 2023.As the federal government crossed this important date, actions intensified in Congress, and each the CM and the Deputy CM met over breakfast at one another’s residences, on the directions of the excessive command. This was seen as a transfer to pause the management tussle between the 2 and to sign Siddaramaiah’s continuation because the CM in the intervening time, particularly forward of the Belagavi legislature session.