"With Folded Hands", Siddaramaiah's Appeal Amid Leadership Change Buzz
NDTV
Siddarmaiah's Varuna Assembly segment comes under Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency, from where Minister Mahadevappa's son Sunil Bose is the Congress candidate.
Amid speculation about leadership change, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday asked the people of his Varuna Assembly segment to give the Congress candidate a lead of at least 60,000 votes in the upcoming Lok Sabha poll, to ensure that he remains in the post.
In Mandya, Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress President DK Shivakumar, who has made no secret about his chief ministerial ambitions, told the people that the desire with which they supported the party in the Assembly poll in May last year, keeping him in mind, "will not turn out to be false."
The statements gain significance amid persistent rumours about leadership change in the ruling Congress in the state after Lok Sabha poll or mid-way of the current Assembly's tenure.
