'Never asked anyone to make me CM': DK Shivakumar amid 'power struggle' with Siddaramaiah

NEW DELHI: Karnataka lawman main curate DK Shivakumar connected Wednesday asserted that helium ne'er asked anyone to marque him main minister, and added that determination is nary request for immoderate discord connected the enactment issue.Also Read | No enactment alteration successful Karnataka: Surjewala, ShivakumarShivakumar, who besides heads the Karnataka Congress, was responding to a question astir immoderate enactment MLAs demanding that helium should beryllium made the CM, citing his "hard work" for the party."I person not asked anyone to instrumentality my name, to marque maine CM. There is nary request for it. When the CM (Siddaramaiah) is there, determination is nary request for immoderate discord," helium told reporters successful Bengaluru, according to quality bureau PTI."Everyone has worked hard. Hundreds of radical similar maine person worked hard.

Am I alone? Lakhs of enactment workers person worked hard. We person to deliberation astir them first," helium added.On the one-on-one meetings being held by the Congress wide caput in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala, the lawman CM stated, "He (Surjewala) is fixing accountability connected matters related to the enactment and the organisation and however to hole for elections from present itself."Also Read | ‘Siddaramaiah won lottery’: In leaked audio, Congress MLA BR Patil claims helium introduced CM to Sonia GandhiSurjewala, meanwhile, continued his one-on-one meetings with the enactment MLAs for the 3rd consecutive day.

He was rushed determination pursuing caller comments by immoderate Karnataka Congress leaders regarding a "leadership change" successful the confederate authorities aboriginal this year.There person been talks wrong governmental circles for immoderate clip present astir the main curate alteration aboriginal this year, citing an alleged power-sharing statement involving Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. The Congress won Karnataka from the BJP successful May 2023.There was stiff contention betwixt Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the main minister's station pursuing the declaration of the assembly predetermination results, and the expansive aged enactment had managed to person the second to judge the lawman CM station instead.There were immoderate reports astatine the clip that a compromise had been reached based connected a "rotational main curate formula," according to which Shivakumar volition beryllium elevated aft two-and-half years, but this person not been officially confirmed by the party.