‘Never asked anyone to make me CM’: DK Shivakumar amid ‘energy battle’ with Siddaramaiah; says ‘no need for any discord’ | India News

File photograph of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah (left) and deputy CM D Ok Shivakumar (Pic credit score: PTI)

NEW DELHI: Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday asserted that he by no means asked anyone to make him chief minister, and added that there is no such thing as a need for any discord on the management challenge.Also Read | No management change in Karnataka: Surjewala, ShivakumarShivakumar, who additionally heads the Karnataka Congress, was responding to a query about some get together MLAs demanding that he needs to be made the CM, citing his “hard work” for the get together.“I’ve not asked anyone to take my title, to make me CM. There is not any need for it. When the CM (Siddaramaiah) is there, there is no such thing as a need for any discord,” he instructed reporters in Bengaluru, in accordance to information company PTI.“Everyone has worked hard. Hundreds of people like me have worked hard. Am I alone? Lakhs of party workers have worked hard. We have to think about them first,” he added.On the one-on-one conferences being held by the Congress basic secretary in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala, the deputy CM said, “He (Surjewala) is fixing accountability on matters related to the party and the organisation and how to prepare for elections from now itself.”Also Read | ‘Siddaramaiah won lottery’: In leaked audio, Congress MLA BR Patil claims he launched CM to Sonia GandhiSurjewala, in the meantime, continued his one-on-one conferences with the get together MLAs for the third consecutive day. He was rushed there following latest feedback by some Karnataka Congress leaders concerning a “leadership change” within the southern state later this 12 months.There have been talks inside political circles for a while now concerning the chief minister change later this 12 months, citing an alleged power-sharing settlement involving Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. The Congress received Karnataka from the BJP in May 2023.There was stiff competitors between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the chief minister’s put up following the declaration of the meeting election outcomes, and the grand outdated get together had managed to persuade the latter to settle for the deputy CM put up as a substitute.There have been some studies on the time {that a} compromise had been reached primarily based on a “rotational chief minister formula,” in accordance to which Shivakumar will probably be elevated after two-and-half years, however this haven’t been formally confirmed by the get together.