Bengaluru Dec 3: Former chief minister and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy has dared incumbent Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to announce a Dalit chief ministerial candidate.
Addressing the reporters after presiding over the booth level committee observers’ meeting in Bengaluru, Kumaraswamy said that the JD(S) had already announced that the party, if it came to power, would make a Dalit leader the deputy chief minister.
Siddaramaiah, however, was busy promoting himself as the next chief minister, Kuwaraswamy said, adding that the former had no interest in the welfare of the community.
It is worth mentioning here that the JD(S) has already projected Kumaraswamy, who belongs to Vokkaliga community as the chief minister candidate of the party.
Kumaraswamy said that Siddaramaiah had ensured the downfall of many JD(S) leaders when he was in that party, and had done the same after he joined the Congress. As a result, senior Dalit leaders such as Mallikarjun Kharge and G Parameshwara had been completely sidelined by the Congress.
He also charged that Siddaramaiah and his close aides were involved in several scams, all of which would be soon revealed by the Congress leaders themselves.
Kumaraswamy also accused Siddaramaiah of having struck a "deal" with the BJP leaders and indirectly effected 'Operation Lotus' in the past.
Hubballi, Jan 28: Charting that the Bharatiya Janata party’s Central leaders have not given a free-hand to the Chief minister B S Yediyurappa on the issue of expansion of Cabinet, former Chief minister and the Congress leader Siddaramaiah had opined that 'it has hampered the State’s development'.
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