No question of CM’s resignation: DK Shivakumar backs Siddaramaiah after K’taka HC verdict in MUDA case
Reiterating that the allegations against Siddaramaiah are part of a big conspiracy, Shivakumar exuded full confidence in the legal system.
Reiterating that the allegations against Siddaramaiah are part of a big conspiracy, Shivakumar exuded full confidence in the legal system.
Even as Tamil Nadu is opposed to a new dam by neighbouring Karnataka across the Cauvery at Mekedatu near the interstate border, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said it would be more advantageous to downstream Tamil Nadu the most.
The CBI is probing a case against Shivakumar for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
She was stabbed on the campus of BVB College last week. Following her murder, the BJP alleged that the police are trying to "divert" the case.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday alleged that the BJP was resorting to propaganda to put the state government in a bad light while urging the latter to get approval from the central government for the Mekedatu Dam project.
Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal made the announcement at the party headquarters here. He said Shivakumar will continue as state Congress chief till the Lok Sabha polls. He will be the only Deputy chief minister.
Earlier in the day, Karnataka Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar along with the party's state in-charge Randeep Surjewala held a breakfast meeting with the party's general secretary-organisation KC Venugopal.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will extend an invitation to opposition leaders to attend the swearing-in ceremony
Experts say, it is a case of once bitten twice shy; after the MP debacle, when Jyotiraditya & 22 MLAs joined BJP, their govt collapsed in March 2020.
Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar and both met with party leader Rahul Gandhi in the national capital on Wednesday even as the party refrained from making any official announcement yet on who will be the next chief minister of Karnataka.
