2023 Karnataka meeting elections | Conflict of ambitions

The Congress sees a successful probability if it performs its playing cards proper, however the competing leader ministerial desires of Siddaramaiah and D.Ok. Shivakumar may just flip spoilsport

ISSUE DATE: Apr 24, 2023 | UPDATED: Apr 14, 2023 20:22 IST

Senior Congress leaders D.Ok. Shivakumar, G. Parameshwar and Siddaramaiah at a protest in opposition to the BJP in Bengaluru, Mar. 24. (Picture: AFP)

Final August, a lot prior to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra commenced from Kanyakumari, the Congress in Karnataka were given into election mode with a display of power that set alarm bells ringing within the state’s ruling BJP. The instance was once former leader minister Siddaramaiah’s seventy fifth birthday for which his loyalists mobilised a rally at Davanagere, the likes of which hadn’t been noticed in recent times, with crowds spilling over to choke the freeway transiting in the course of the the city in central Karnataka. Within the run-up to that match, then again, the central Congress management was once cautious of 1 an important issue that might distract the birthday celebration from its try to reclaim energy in Karnataka—the competing ambitions of Siddaramaiah and state Congress president D.Ok. Shivakumar.

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Apr 14, 2023