Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said that it is the Congress party that will decide about making him the Chief Minister in future.
Although, there was a stiff competition between the current Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the Chief Minister’s post after the results came out in the Assembly election in May last year. It was finally decided by the Congress that Siddaramaiah woud be the CM while the party had managed to convince the DK Shivakumar to be the Deputy Chief Minister. There were also some reports that there was a compromise made which was based on “rotational Chief Minister formula” according to which Shivakumar will become CM after two-and-half years but it was no officially confirmed by the party. During a temple visit here, a priest had prayed that God’s blessings may be showered on Shivakumar, and he becomes the Chief Minister. On this, Shivakumar said “What’s wrong if a priest expresses his desire before God while praying? The priest has expressed his desire. Now Siddaramaiah is the Chief Minister, I’m working as Deputy Chief Minister under him, also as party’s state President. People speak about it and desiring it (Shivakumar should become CM) is a different matter, it will be decided by our party.”
“Now we are all working under the leadership of Siddaramaiah, and our desire is that the state should progress further under his leadership,” he said. “There will be people including supporters and priests, who pray for us, they will express their opinion. Can we stop them from doing it? At the temple it is between God and his disciple, they have expressed their feelings to God,” Shivakumar added.
