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Cong. silences speculation over Krishna's fate

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI JAN. 20. The Congress central leadership today sought to silence speculation of a Maharashtra-like change in chief ministership in Karnataka and said that the incumbent, S.M. Krishna, "enjoys the full confidence of the high command".

Reacting to reports of dissidents within the Karnataka unit of the party stepping up efforts to displace Mr. Krishna in the wake of the change of leadership in Maharashtra, the AICC general secretary in charge of the State, Vayalar Ravi, said there was no question of changing the Chief Minister. "We consider him among the best chief ministers," he said.

Though there is a view within the central leadership that Mr. Krishna could have carried the State Legislature and the State unit of the party with him better on the vexed Cauvery and Nagappa hostage issues, the official word from the party is that it empathised with the Chief Minister.

"We are fully aware of the crises that the Krishna Government has been put through over the last couple of months because of the Cauvery issue and the Nagappa hostage situation," Mr. Ravi said.

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