Who is to be chief ministerial candidate among Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar is point of contention
Fissures within the Karnataka Congress seem to be widening over the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the 2023 Legislative Assembly elections as one faction favouring the former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the other backing KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar continue to indulge in one-upmanship.
Despite the party high command’s diktat to leaders not to make statements on the party’s next chief ministerial face, on Wednesday, Pulakeshinagar MLA R. Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy and MLA for Harihar S. Ramappa joined the list of those projecting Leader of the Opposition Mr. Siddaramaiah as the party’s chief ministerial candidate.