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NEW DELHI: Congress main Mallikarjun Kharge connected Thursday played down the tussle betwixt Siddharamaiah and his lawman DK Shivakumar implicit the main ministerial post, saying that the enactment volition resoluteness the "confusion arsenic soon arsenic possible.
"This comes a time aft Karnataka location curate G Parameshwara's said that everyone successful the ruling Congress enactment volition welcome, if Kharge becomes the main minister.While taking to reporters, Kharge rubbished the speculations and said that Sonia Gandhi takes decisions regarding him."You (media), helium (Parameshwara) and radical astatine the apical accidental that it is amended if I go (the main minister). But, much than fate, arsenic per my ideology and arsenic per my work to the enactment truthful far, Sonia Gandhi takes decisions regarding me," helium said."But, that question does not originate now. There is already a main curate here. If Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and I, together, person to instrumentality immoderate determination successful the absorption of a change, it volition instrumentality immoderate time. Let's hold and see," helium added.Supporters of lawman main curate DK Shivakumar person been insisting connected his connected his elevation successful lines with a rumoured power-sharing statement with CM Siddaramaiah erstwhile the enactment won the 2023 assembly polls.
Amid speculations astir the enactment alteration successful Karnataka, Parameshwara said connected Wednesday that everyone successful the ruling Congress enactment volition welcome, if Kharge, a elder person with a batch of experience, becomes the main minister.A powerfulness conflict betwixt Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar intensified arsenic soon arsenic the Congress authorities successful Karnataka completed its halfway people successful November past year. Several MLAs and MLCs from DKS camped successful Delhi to propulsion the enactment precocious bid to marque him the adjacent main minister.DK Shivakumar added to the speculations aft helium claimed that determination had so been “a confidential knowing connected enactment modulation among five-six leaders” soon aft Congress won a landslide successful the 2023 elections.The lawman main curate made the archetypal notation to the powerfulness pact but stopped abbreviated of divulging much details. “This is confidential. I don’t privation to talk publically connected this,” helium said.The enactment tussle wrong the ruling enactment has intensified amid speculation astir a imaginable alteration of main curate aft the Congress authorities completed the halfway people of its five-year word connected November 20, 2025.
The speculation has been fuelled by the reported "power-sharing" statement betwixt Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar astatine the clip of authorities enactment successful 2023.After Congress won successful Karnataka assembly successful 2023, enactment precocious bid was successful a hole implicit the CM face. After days of deliberation, the enactment went up with Siddaramaiah's sanction fixed his seniority and popularity. However, an statement was reportedly reached that DK Shivakumar would instrumentality implicit the reins successful the 2nd fractional of the government.
