Claiming that the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in the State cannot be unseated easily, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said the government was running smoothly under the guidance of former CM Siddaramaiah.
Speaking at a function organised to release books by journalist Amshi Prasanna Kumar in Mysuru on Sunday, Mr. Kumaraswamy referred to reports of BJP leaders readying themselves to take oath as Ministers and said it was not so easy to unseat the government, which was running under the guidance of Mr. Siddaramaiah and with the consent of AICC president Rahul Gandhi.
Stating that there was no threat to the government, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the coalition would continue to help the farmers of the State as well as continue the good programmes begun by Mr. Siddaramaiah.
Referring to a statement made earlier in the day by Minister for Backward Classes Welfare Puttarangashetty that he still saw Mr. Siddaramaiah as CM even though Mr. Kumaraswamy was presently occupying the post, the CM said he did not find anything amiss with the Minister’s respect for Mr. Siddaramaiah.
He regretted that his statement that senior Congress leader M. Mallikarjun Kharge should have become CM long ago was taken out of context. He claimed that Mr. Kharge’s family was facing a similar political onslaught in Kalaburagi like former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda’s family was facing in old Mysore region with their political existence.
Mr. Kumaraswamy also made light of the political developments in the coalition in the wake of JD(S) leader and former Minister Basavaraj Horatti’s call for dissolution of the Assembly. Unlike the furore created in the media, which carried reports claiming that the CM had summoned his close aides and Ministers to a resort in Mysuru and was holding political confabulations, Mr. Kumaraswamy said they were merely relaxing there.
