MLC election: ‘BJP troubled by rebel candidates, Congress has no such problem’

KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar claims the party has resolved all differences among its leaders

BJP is facing problems from its rebel candidates in the legislative council polls in several districts of Karnataka, but there is no such problem in the Congress, D.K. Shivakumar, KPCC president, said in Belagavi on December 6.

“In most districts, Congress leaders and workers have accepted our choice of candidates and are working for them. Only in one place, there were some differences among some leaders. We resolved them. Everywhere else, we are united. But BJP is suffering from internal differences. At many places, there are two stages on a single stage. There is confusion among workers. There are rebel BJP candidates at several places. We don’t have a rebel candidate anywhere. We don’t have leaders who have betrayed the party,” he said in a oblique reference to Ramesh Jarkiholi, BJP MLA who has openly supported his brother Lakhan Jarkiholi, who is contesting as an independent candidate in Belagavi.