Karnataka: No fight over CM post, deputy CM Shivakumar rejects PM Modi’s charge

Bengaluru: Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Sunday rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion of an internal rift in the Congress in Karnataka over the CM’s chair.

“No chairs are wobbling in Karnataka. All chairs are stable. I don't know what the Prime Minister is seeing," he told reporters at Lingasugur in Raichur district.

Modi, addressing BJP workers at the airport, said internal fights over power sharing had overshadowed governance in Karnataka as he stepped up attack on the Congress.


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The Congress leadership remained uncertain about who would continue leading the government, the PM said, taking a swipe at the Opposition party.

For the past three years in Karnataka, instead of resolving people’s problems, most of the government’s time has been spent resolving internal conflicts, the PM said.

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