Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that there is no proposal before the party to completely overhaul the cabinet ahead of the Assembly polls in the state.
Just before the party coordination committee meeting here, Mr Siddaramaiah said, “It is all media speculation that the party wants to drop ministers who have completed four years. We have not thought of it even vaguely. But we are thinking of inducting two ministers soon after by-elections to two constituencies are over.”
He was confident that the Congress will win the by-polls as well as the 2018 Assembly elections. “The BJP leaders are daydreaming. They have started behaving as if they have already won the Assembly polls. It is not going to be easy for them,” he said.
He said that the government will not drop the Mekedatu reservoir project at any cost. “Tamil Nadu is trying to play political games over this project, but we will not allow them to succeed in their machinations,” he said.
Congress meet in N-K
Setting an eye on voters from North Karnataka, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday said that the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee will hold a two-day executive committee meeting in one of the prominent districts of the region.
After the party coordination committee meeting here, he said that the KPCC is yet to finalise the venue for the meeting. “It could be either Belagavi or Hubballi-Dharwad districts that will witness party’s poll bugle being sounded. The meeting will be held soon after the state budget session.”
Earlier, he highlighted how the state has been affected by drought and listed the programmes taken up by the state government to help farmers. “Karnataka has been facing drought for the last six years, which makes it difficult for the ruling party to win over people’s support. Despite such duress, the state government has made all efforts to help the farmers in distress,” he said.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP leaders, Mr Singh said that the BJP is good at dividing the society on communal lines and has conveniently forgotten development issues.
“Look at Mr Modi. He should have made speeches to unite society at large, instead he only knows how to spew venom against a particular community. His recent remarks on Khabristan-Shamshan are a case in point,” he said.
