Curated By: Sanstuti Nath
Last Updated: December 10, 2023, 22:19 IST
Kumaraswamy said such an ‘audacious’ act cannot be expected from small leaders (Image: PTI File)
“All is not well in the Congress government. I don’t know when this government will go. An influential minister is desperate to escape from the cases against him.” Kumaraswamy said
All is not well in Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka as an ‘influential minister’ is considering joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to evade legal troubles initiated by the Centre, said Janta Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister, who refused to name the ‘influential minister’, claimed that the senior Congress leader who is ‘desperate’ to wriggle out of ‘cases’ filed against him by the Centre, may quit the party with ’50 to 60 MLAs.
“All is not well in the Congress government. I don’t know when this government will go. An influential minister is desperate to escape from the cases against him.” Kumaraswamy told reporters in Hassan.
He said the Centre’s cases against the said Minister have left no chance of ‘escape’ for him.
When asked to name the leader, Kumaraswamy said such an ‘audacious’ act cannot be expected from small leaders.
“Only ‘influential people’ can do such things,” he added.
The JD(S) state president predicted that ‘something like Maharashtra’ may happen at any moment in Karnataka.
“Looking at the prevailing political atmosphere, anything can happen,” he said.
(With PTI Inputs)
