Give DyCM post to Lingayat community: MB Patil
Bengaluru, May 22: Former minister MB Patil said that two Deputy Chief Minister posts should be created in JDS-Congress coalition government and one should be given to Lingayat community.
Speaking to reporters at his residence at Sadashiva Nagar here on Tuesday, Patil said that both Shamanur Shivashankarappa and himself are the aspirants and any one of them should be given the position. All the 78 MLAs won from Congress want to become ministers. But it is not possible to make all of them ministers. Caste, community, seniority and other factors should also be considered, he said.
“I am also one of the aspirants of minister post. I want to become the deputy chief minister. Total 16 members were elected from my community. But the party high command will decide on entrusting the responsibility”, he said.
The news that JDS supremo HD Deve Gowda has asked the party high command against giving ministerial berth to DK Shivakumar and MB Patil is a fake one. He has not demanded any particular post. But the party would take a decision as it is a coalition government. If the party high command considered either KPCC president Dr G Parameshwar or DK Shivakumar for DyCM post in southern region, it should consider one person from the North Karnataka, he demanded.
MLAs of Lingayat community have held a meeting yesterday and prevailed upon CLP leader Siddaramaiah to give DyCM post to their community. Who is Thippanna to speak about this, he asked.
Separate Lingayat religion is not related to politics. Election is different and the religion issue is different. He has never used Lingayat factor as a triumph card. The voice for separate Lingayat religion would continue. He would continue this demand along with SM Jamadar. Their fight would not stop even after election, he said.
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Kulkarni became victim of BJP conspiracy as he grew politically in North Karnataka: Shivakumar
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Bengaluru (PTI): Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar claimed on Friday that Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case, has become a victim of a BJP conspiracy because he was growing politically in the north Karnataka region.
Stating that he has faith in Kulkarni and believes he has done nothing wrong, he said the former minister will fight the case legally by filing an appeal.
A Bengaluru court on Friday sentenced Kulkarni and fifteen others to life imprisonment in the BJP leader Yogeshgouda Goudar murder case.
On Wednesday, Santhosh Gajanan Bhat, Judge of the Special Court for cases involving elected representatives, convicted Kulkarni and others under various IPC sections, including criminal conspiracy and murder.
“I respect the court. But there was a big conspiracy in this case. When the police were about to file a B-report, the CBI was given the case to harass him (Kulkarni). Vinay Kulkarni has become a victim of a BJP conspiracy as he was growing politically in north Karnataka,” Shivakumar said.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, he said Kulkarni has several legal options.
“I have spoken to his family. He swore on God and told me that he had not done anything wrong. I still have faith in him. I feel that he has not done anything wrong. He has an opportunity to file an appeal,” he said, adding that he stands with Kulkarni’s family and supporters and believes he will get justice.
The case pertains to the killing of Goudar, a BJP zilla panchayat member, in Dharwad on June 15, 2016. Kulkarni was a minister at the time. Hired assailants allegedly attacked and hacked Goudar to death in his gym in Saptapur, Dharwad.
Following demands from Goudar’s family and others, the then-BJP government transferred the case to the CBI in 2019.
Veteran BJP leader and former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, under whose tenure the case was handed over to the CBI, told reporters in Chikkamagaluru, “I said what I needed to say when the crime happened, and what I said—that the guilty should be punished and justice should be served—has proven true.”
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, BJP leader and MLC C T Ravi, reacting to the court order, said, “Justice delayed, but not denied.”
