Bengaluru: Is there a 'Siddu hand' behind the current rebellion by ruling coalition legislators of the Congress and JD(S)? Senior Congress leader and party leader in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad may have got such a feedback as he reportedly took Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah to task on Thursday and asked him to bring the fluid political situation under control failing which the party would have to take remedial steps in future.
Mr Azad has met several leaders ever since he arrived in the city three days back to convince and get the rebel MLAs to fall in line. After reportedly gaining an impression that die-hard supporters of Mr Siddaramaiah were the ones creating problems for the party, he told the former CM firmly that it was his responsibility to convince the rebels to withdraw their resignations.
Sources said the resignation of Housing Minister, M.T.B. Nagaraj who has all along been maintaining that Siddaramaiah was still his leader though he was part of the Kumaraswamy government, made many Congress leaders doubt if it was all the doing of the former CM. It is also said that JD (S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda and many others gave a negative feedback about Mr Siddaramaiah to the Congress leadership. Following this, Mr Siddaramaiah took to Twitter and remarked that the media dubbing the rebels as his die-hard supporters had pained him. He said all legislators were his partymen and he had love and respect for all of them.
