Bangalore: Rumblings in Congress over non-allotment of ministerial berths

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, May 18: It is learnt that some aspirants for ministerial berths, whose hopes of bagging a ministry have been dashed, stayed away from the swearing-in ceremony of the new ministry held at 10.35 am on Saturday May 18 at Glass House of Raj Bhavan.

D K Shivakumar and Anil Lad, who have been sidelined because of allegations of scandals they are said to have been involved in, did not participate in the ceremony, it is gathered.

In the meanwhile, disgruntled MLCs, Motamma, Veeranna Mattikatti, Kagodu Thimmappa, Srinivas Mane, R V Venkatesh, and Mahanthesh Kaujalgi, who were hoping to find their names in the list of ministers, have decided to go to New Delhi in an effort to convince the central leadership to accommodate them in the ministry.

Supporters of Tanveer Sait, MLA from Narasimharaja constituency in Mysore, also are protesting in Mysore over the failure of the party to accommodate their leader. One of the fans of Sait, Firoz Khan, tried to commit suicide by dousing kerosene on himself. The policemen of Laxmipuram station arrested him.

Supporters of MLA from Gauribidanur, H H Shivashankara Reddy, have given call for bandh in the town, in protest against not giving ministerial berth to their leaders. However, the bandh call received lukewarm response. Some of the supporters even tried to force the owners of establishments to close their shops.