BENGALURU: Amid rising hypothesis in Karnataka over Siddaramaiah‘s tenure as CM, senior ministers G Parameshwara, HC Mahadevappa, and Satish Jarkiholi met late Tuesday night time, a gathering that has sparked hypothesis that these ministers may very well be lobbying for the highest publish.
The assembly, which lasted for 2 hours at Mahadevappa’s official residence, was their third prior to now few months.Reviews point out that the ministers could be aiming to accentuate their efforts to safe the CM publish for an individual from a SC/ST group ought to Siddaramaiah’s departure develop into inevitable. Jarkiholi is an ST, whereas Parameshwara and Mahadevappa are SCs.
Nevertheless, a senior Congress functionary, stated, “The assembly was half of a bigger effort to strategise for the long run.”
The decision for a functionary from SC, ST communities to imagine the CM’s publish has echoed in Congress for over a decade. With each communities rallying strongly behind the occasion in the course of the 2023 meeting polls, these influential ministers imagine the time is ripe to fulfil this demand.
“Parameshwara and Jarkiholi have been nursing ambitions to develop into CM, which is why they’re advocating for a ‘Dalit CM‘. Given the help of each communities, occasion excessive command may discover it difficult to disregard their request. Their technique is to safe at the least the deputy CM’s place if the excessive command selects another person as CM,” one other Congress functionary stated.
Some observers view these conferences as a technique to undermine deputy CM DK Shivakumar’s aspirations to succeed Siddaramaiah. Reviews recommend {that a} purported deal struck by the Congress excessive command in 2023 entailed a shared chief ministership between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for 30 months every.
Jarkiholi, nonetheless, denied that the CM’s place was a subject of debate.
