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Bangalore : Senior Congress leader and former minister DK Shivakumar has requested his supporters not to extend hands seeking power in the name of Okkaligas. The senior leader’s appeal comes in the backdrop of the decision of a few ruling party members to meet party higher-ups seeking a cabinet portfolio for him.
Shivakumar has in a letter to all Okkaliga members of the Congress has asked them to refrain from seeking favours in the name of caste thereby indirectly taking a step forward in rebelling against CM Siddaramaiah. Shivakumar whose road to the cabinet is blocked owing to the ‘tainted’ image, has now shot a new weapon towards the CM.
In fact Shivakumar is frustrated over his failure to secure a cabinet berth despite succeeding in convincing the Delhi leaders. Even AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh who is in-charge of state affairs while participating in the first core committee meeting had directed CM to induct Shivakumar and Roshan Baig to the cabinet but of no avail.