Party decides whether I must be there in cabinet or not: DKS
Bengaluru: Whether I should be there in the cabinet or hold any role of the party will be decided by the party High Command, said former minister and Congress leader DK Shivakumar.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, he said, "I have never been alone in the party. Being alone is not my identity. I had gone to visit temples after elections. Citing this, telling that I am not visible after elections is not a right thing."
I do not know why SR Patil resigned as KPCC president. He is a significant leader in the party. In South Karnataka, our (Vakkaligas) people are there. There Veerashivas are available. In the same way, all the people who have voted for us are available in the state. High Command will think about all these things. It is not possible to ignore Veerashaivas while forming the cabinet," DK Shivakumar added.
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Maharashtra polls: Rahul Gandhi's bag checked, Congress leader questions authorities
Amravati(PTI): Poll authorities on Saturday checked the bag of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Dhamangaon Railway in Maharashtra's Amravati district.
He was here to address a public rally for the November 20 assembly polls.
Gandhi's bag was checked after his helicopter landed at the helipad in Dhamangaon Railway, which is among the eight assembly seats in Amravati district.
Former state minister and Congress' Teosa MLA Yashomati Thakur, speaking to reporters, questioned the action of the poll authorities and asked why they were not checking bags of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah or Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
The checking of bags of leaders, a practice of the poll authorities to enforce the model code of conduct, came to the fore in the state's election campaign after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray was subjected to it in Yavatmal.
Thackeray not only shot a video of the procedure but also chided the poll authorities on not checking bags of Modi, Shah, Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
However, videos that surfaced subsequently showed bags of Shah, Shinde, Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar etc being checked by poll authorities.
