I’m a loyal Congress employee, anybody questioning my dedication is in phantasm: Shivakumar
Karnataka deputy chief minister D.Ok. Shivakumar on Sunday stated he was a loyal Congress employee and anybody questioning his dedication to the celebration and the Gandhi household is in phantasm.
He additionally asserted that the celebration will come again to energy within the 2028 Meeting polls.
Shivakumar was reacting to hypothesis about his current assembly with celebration central leaders in Delhi, and talks about in political circles, particularly within the ruling celebration, concerning the chief minister change later this 12 months.
“I’ve not put any situation on anyone and there’s no have to put any situation. I am a Karyakarta, I work in line with what the celebration tells me. Placing circumstances or blackmailing is just not in my blood. I am a loyal Congress employee,” Shivakumar stated, in response to a query on hypothesis about his go to to Delhi and that he had apparently put some circumstances on celebration leaders.
Chatting with reporters right here, he stated, “If anybody, allow them to be from any celebration, questions my dedication to the Congress celebration and the Gandhi household, it’s their phantasm.”
Requested whether or not hypothesis concerning the 2.5 years energy sharing system was false, Shivakumar merely stated, “I can solely say in 2028. The Congress celebration will come again to energy.”
Shivakumar, who can be the state Congress chief, is a robust chief ministerial aspirant and has made no secret of his ambition to turn into the CM.
There was stiff competitors between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the chief minister’s publish after the declaration of Meeting election ends in Could 2023, and the Congress had managed to persuade the latter and made him the Deputy Chief Minister.
There have been some studies on the time {that a} compromise had been reached based mostly on a “rotational chief minister system,” in line with which Shivakumar will turn into CM after two-and-half years, however they haven’t been formally confirmed by the celebration.
