Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra and Public Works Division (PWD) Minister Satish Jarkiholi met on Monday, inflicting a stir inside the state’s political circles. Each leaders, nonetheless, stated the assembly had no political significance.
Chatting with reporters after his assembly with Jarkiholi, Vijayendra stated he met the minister to debate works associated to his Shikaripura constituency. “I mentioned the state freeway that passes by means of Shikaripura and the toll sales space constructed. The toll sales space in our constituency is the second for a similar freeway in Shimoga district. I’ve requested the minister to shift it because it was inconveniencing most people,” he stated.
Jarkiholi, the Congress minister, too, maintained that the assembly with BJP leaders from the Shikaripura constituency was to handle their points. “Assembly (Opposition legislators) is a routine course of,” he stated, including that there was no connection between the controversy over altering the chief minister and the assembly.
Rumours a few change in management within the state have been circulating for the reason that Lokayukta and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed FIRs in opposition to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in reference to the Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA) case. Responding to media queries, Jarkiholi stated he had “repeatedly stated that Siddaramaiah would stay the chief minister”.
To a query on his closed-door conferences with Congress ministers, he stated such conferences have been held even earlier than the MUDA row. Not a lot significance was connected to these conferences then, the minister stated.
Jarkiholi additionally met with All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi not too long ago, fueling speculations on a change of guard in Karnataka. To a query on the assembly, Jarkiholi stated his assembly with Kharge was to ask him to the Karnataka Bhavan inauguration, scheduled for November 10.
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