News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Amit Mandal
Updated Fri, 25 Feb 2022 05:48 PM IST
Summary
According to Siddaramaiah, Rahul Gandhi had called a meeting of senior Congress leaders in Karnataka to take stock of the political situation, discuss the strategy to win elections and return to power.
Ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka next year, big leaders chanted the mantra of unity in the Congress. A day after meeting Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar, holding a joint press conference in Delhi, claimed that the Congress would return to power. Siddaramaiah said with one year left for the assembly elections in the state, there is a good atmosphere here for the return of the Congress as since the BJP returned to power through Operation Lotus, it has not done any development work here. People are cursing this government.
There is no difference between us, claims Siddaramaiah
He said that Rahul Gandhi had called a meeting of senior Congress leaders in Karnataka to take stock of the political situation and discuss the strategy to win elections and come back to power. Rahul Gandhi has got the message that everyone in the party is working together in the state and the party will come back to power. We are all working together, there are no differences. BJP is trying to show that there are differences, this is not true. Since we are a democratic party, there can be differences of opinion, that’s all.
Shivkumar said, instructions to go among the public
Shivakumar said that around 15 state Congress leaders met Rahul Gandhi in the presence of party general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala and KC Venugopal. We have briefed him about the political atmosphere in Karnataka and the organizational matters of the party. We have a year’s time and we have been asked to change the national politics, go before the people keeping in mind the issues of the people of the state. The leaders have been asked to spend more time on the field. It is our duty to bring the party back to power and we have promised to work together. He said the Congress’ padyatra to implement the Mekedatu project will begin from Ramanagara on February 27 and end on March 3 at the National College Ground in Bengaluru.
Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with state Congress leaders is said to be aimed at sending a message of collective leadership amid reports of political unity between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar as both have ambitions to become chief ministers.
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Ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka next year, big leaders chanted the mantra of unity in the Congress. A day after meeting Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar, holding a joint press conference in Delhi, claimed that the Congress would return to power. Siddaramaiah said with one year left for the assembly elections in the state, there is a good atmosphere here for the return of the Congress as since the BJP returned to power through Operation Lotus, it has not done any development work here. People are cursing this government.
There is no difference between us, claims Siddaramaiah
He said that Rahul Gandhi had called a meeting of senior Congress leaders in Karnataka to take stock of the political situation and discuss the strategy to win elections and come back to power. Rahul Gandhi has got the message that everyone in the party is working together in the state and the party will come back to power. We are all working together, there are no differences. BJP is trying to show that there are differences, this is not true. Since we are a democratic party, there can be differences of opinion, that’s all.
Shivkumar said, instructions to go among the public
Shivakumar said that around 15 state Congress leaders met Rahul Gandhi in the presence of party general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala and KC Venugopal. We have briefed him about the political atmosphere in Karnataka and the organizational matters of the party. We have a year’s time and we have been asked to change the national politics, go before the people keeping in mind the issues of the people of the state. The leaders have been asked to spend more time on the field. It is our duty to bring the party back to power and we have promised to work together. He said the Congress’ padyatra to implement the Mekedatu project will begin from Ramanagara on February 27 and end on March 3 at the National College Ground in Bengaluru.
Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with state Congress leaders is said to be aimed at sending a message of collective leadership amid reports of political unity between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar as both have ambitions to become chief ministers.