From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Dec 17: State Congress leaders are leaving for Delhi to get clearance for the appointments of chairmen to the Boards and Corporations as a list of recommendations has already been sent to the party high command.
Speaking to media persons near his residence in Bengaluru on Sunday, he clarified that the party’s central leaders have not asked the State Congress leaders to come to Delhi and mentioned that the State leaders are going to Delhi to get the approvals.
He said AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge has directed the State party to oversee the implementation of the party’s guarantees and also constitute the taluk and district-level Congress committees.
Shivakumar said the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike leader Narayana Gowda had met him and requested that the cases registered against the Vedike workers who are fighting for Kannada be reconsidered. "I have already discussed with the City Police Commissioner and have asked him to review the cases. I have told him that false cases should not be foisted against Vedike,’’ he said.
To a question that the BJP Mysuru MP Pratap Simha has been allegedly trapped by Congress party in the parliament gas attack case so as to facilitate chief minister’s son Dr Yatindra Siddaramaiah to contest from Mysuru, Shivakumar said the Chief Minister has himself dismissed the claims as totally baseless and that Dr Yatindra is not contesting in the Lok Sabha polls.
"What happens at the time of Lok Sabha polls cannot be said right now," he said. He, however, made it clear that “Pratap Simha is not a kid to be trapped by anybody. His name may have Simha or lion but is he an animal to be trapped? The issuance of passes to parliament is done by the MP," he said.
The deputy chief minister said the government has directed the forest department to provide a job to Thimmappa's daughter, whose father was killed by a wild elephant at Aralikaredoddi in Ramanagara district. "Barricades will be installed and demand for granting compensation will be decided by the deputy commissioner," he added.