Bengaluru: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah has advised former minister M.B. Patil to be patient on getting a cabinet berth and that he could get a chance during the second phase of cabinet expansion.
When Mr Siddaramaiah was away at a naturopathy camp, Mr Patil and others who missed ministerial posts had revolted against the party leadership.
A day after Mr Siddaramaiah returned to the city from Mangaluru, Mr Patil, who once projected himself as a second-in-command in the Siddaramaiah government, met the Kuruba leader and closeted with him for more than an hour.
Mr Siddaramaiah told Mr Patil that since the Congress party had taken a decision to give a chance to new faces, his turn would come in the second phase of Cabinet expansion.
The former chief minister asked Mr Patil to be loyal to the Congress party as it had given them so much, party sources said.
