Amidst the growing disenchantment among the Lawmakers of the coalition government, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwar on Thursday called a breakfast meeting with KPCC Leaders and Cabinet members.
Congress General Secretary and State Incharge KC Venugopal, Congress CLP Leader SG Siddaramaiah, KPCC Chief Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister DK Shivkumar among others were also present in the meeting.
Karnataka: Deputy CM G Parameshwara is hosting a breakfast meeting at his residence in Bengaluru. KC Venugopal, MB Patil and other party leaders and cabinet ministers are present at the meeting. pic.twitter.com/3QYxTtFmef
— ANI (@ANI) May 30, 2019
Talking to media after the meet, Siddaramaiah said, ‘The result of this Lok Sabha elections will not have an impact on this govt. All our MLAs & ministers are united. Ramesh Jarkiholi will not leave the party’.
Former Karnataka CM and Congress leader Siddaramaiah: The result of this Lok Sabha elections will not have an impact on this govt. All our MLAs & ministers are united. Ramesh Jarkiholi will not leave the party. #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/nk1qMlB8h0
— ANI (@ANI) May 30, 2019
Earlier, the party had on Wednesday called its CLP meeting to check crisis in the Congress-JD(S) Coalition government in the state.
It came amid reports of two Congress MLAs – Ramesh Jarkiholi and Sudhakar – met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Leaders at Former CM SM Krishna’s residence earlier this week. However both the legislators have claimed that the meeting was not political.
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday met with Congress state chief Dinesh Gundu Rao and former chief minister SG Siddaramaiah. The trio is said to have discuss the post-poll strategies of the ruling alliance of Congress and JD-S in Karnataka.
The Congress-JD(S) Coalition Government in the state is facing rough patches since it is formed last year. The rough-patches between JD(S)-Congress came to the forefront during a run-up to the national polls in the Karnataka with leaders of both parties accusing each other.
The tussle between the coalition has benefited the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state which swept the polls in the state bagging 25 Lok Sabha Seat. While JD(S)-Congress Coalition which is in power in the state managed to won one seat each.
READ: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy meets Siddaramaiah, Dinesh Gundo Rao to keep coaliton govt intact
The Congress-JD(S) together has 117 MLAs in Karnataka Assembly earlier with Congress 79, JDS 37 and one from BSP, while BJP has 105 in the 224-member Assembly. The halfway mark is 113.
Congress after Karnataka State Polls last year has extended Support to JD(S) and Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy with an aim to keep BJP out of the power.
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