Leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced on Friday that next year’s assembly elections will be his last election and he will retire from politics to make room for others. Karnataka assembly elections 2023 is my last election: Siddaramaiah.
Speaking while inaugurating the Siddappaji Kandaya and Kondotsava program organized in the town’s Bastipura badavane, he said that RSS has named my 75th birthday festival to be held on August 3 in Davangere as Siddaramaiah’s festival. It is Amritotsava not Utsava. He invited everyone to come.
Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Friday invited Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar for breakfast to quell, at least temporarily, the reports of growing differences in what appears to be a forced truce imposed by the party’s high command, persons aware of the developments said.
The breakfast meeting coupled with pictures of the two leaders laughing and sharing a meal at Siddaramaiah’s official residence attempted to contain the damage of their rift and its impact on the Congress before the 2023 assembly elections.
“We met to discuss various issues of the party… about building the organisation and facing the elections,” Shivakumar said with Siddaramaiah by his side.
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The statements come at a time when there is growing speculation that the individual political ambitions of the two leaders and their aim to become the next chief minister are denting the party’s chances against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the next year’s polls.
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