KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar to Serve Notices on Erring Leaders

 Bengaluru: Taking a serious view of public utterances by some MLAs and Ministers on change of Chief Minister in Karnataka, president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Monday said to serve show-cause notices on leaders who made public utterances on change of Chief Minister.

When his attention was drawn to a statement by Congress MLA Basavaraj Shivaganga that Shivakumar be made the Chief Minister in place of Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar said a show-cause notice will be served on him and to query whether Minister for Cooperation K.N. Rajanna would also get a show-cause notice served on him for his statements, Shivakumar said “Wait. Who all will get show-cause notice?”

It may be recalled here that general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Randeep Singh Surjewala and president of AICC Mallikarjun Kharge had asked leaders to refrain from airing their views on party affairs in public.

Shivakumar also cautioned party MLAs and Ministers not to hold party workers meetings in their residences but engaged party workers meetings in community halls so that all leaders take part in it. If it is public grievances meetings, then, MLAs/Ministers are free to conduct such meetings at their residences but party workers' meetings have been barred in MLAs/Ministers residences.

The KPCC Chief said he was unhappy with the results of recently held Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka in which Congress nominees won in 9 seats of the 28 seats. Fact-finding committees will be formed to study on what went wrong in the defeat of party nominees in the Lok Sabha elections and the fact-finding committees from KPCC will tour each of the Assembly seats and submit a report in this regard.

“There was no Modi wave in Karnataka. Fresh faces were fielded in the elections,” said the KPCC president and the fact finding committees will reveal it all which led to the poll debacle. “We expected to win in 15 seats but ended up winning 9. Though, it is an improvement from winning just one seat in the 2019 poll but we are not happy with it,” he said.

Another fact-finding committee from AICC will also give its report on election loss in Karnataka, said Shivakumar.