A Congress MLA has urged party high command to appoint three more Deputy CMs for ‘balancing castes’, which is seen as a bid by CM Siddaramaiah’s camp to checkmate Shivakumar.
Shivakumar had cited various reasons for quashing the case, including the lack of government sanction under Section 17 A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, introduced in 2018, political malice and the prolonged investigation in the case spanning over three years.