Satish Jarkiholi should become CM: Siddaramaiah
Bagalkot, Dec 19: Batting in favour of his staunch follower, former chief minister and Congress-JDS coalition government coordination committee chairman Siddaramaiah said that former minister Satish Jarkiholi should become the chief minister of the state.
Speaking at a Valmiki Jayanti programme at Badami in the district on Wednesday, Siddaramaiah said that “why Satish Jarkiholi should not become the chief minister? No one is permanent. I believe in social justice. He should also become the chief minister once. I have dragged the social justice rath with all efforts till this point. If it is possible, drag it further. Otherwise, leave it there only. Never ever try to pull it back by listening to somebody. Wheel has to roll down and it should not stop for any reason”, Siddaramaiah said.
Everyone will get chance
Responding to the issue of becoming CM, Satish Jarkiholi said that “everyone in the society would get a chance. But one has to wait for it. Let us see it in future. Minister post is not a must to do development works. Without it, I can do my work. I don’t know about dropping Ramesh Jarkiholi from the Cabinet. Cabinet expansion is fixed on December 22. We will wait till that time. As of now, I am not the aspirant for minister post. My supporters have demanded minister post for me. But it is left to the party high command to give or not. It is better if the Cabinet is expanded. The prediction of Opposition party that the coalition government will collapse after Cabinet expansion will not come true”, he said.
The decision on who should be inducted or dropped from the Cabinet would be decided in New Delhi. He would not accept that north Karnataka was neglected. He would also try to ensure justice in a phased manner, he added.
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TMC MLA Humayun Kabir apologises for claiming 'coterie' influencing Mamata's decisions
Kolkata (PTI): Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has apologised to the party's leadership for his recent comment that a "coterie" was influencing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's key decisions.
Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, expressed his apology on Friday in reply to a show cause notice issued by the party's disciplinary committee.
"Yes, I have sent a reply. I will certainly follow party discipline. But I think being a person from the rural belt, not conversant with the ways of the city, I faced this situation for speaking my mind. However, I had not said anything against my party or its leadership," he told reporters.
"Our CM epitomises the spirit of 'Maa-Mati-Manush' and being a person of the grassroots level, I always stay rooted to the ground. Maybe I should have been more careful about my way of expressing," he said.
A senior member of the TMC's legislative disciplinary committee said the reply to the show cause letter was received, and a decision on it will be communicated soon.
Kabir, however, said some other TMC MPs had on earlier occasions made comments against party colleagues but were not censured.
On Thursday, he met the CM in the assembly's lobby where she had asked him to reply to the show-cause notice first.
On November 26, Kabir had said a coterie within the party was taking certain decisions to cement their position and was influencing the CM's key decisions for their short-term gains.
He had said this a day after the TMC national executive meeting where the party had categorically asked its leaders not to make comments in public against any internal decision and formed disciplinary committees at different levels.
Kabir had earlier advocated for giving more responsibility to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, reiterating that the Diamond Harbour MP was undoubtedly the number two in the party's hierarchy and those trying to undermine his influence would not succeed.
