Cabinet expansion in September: Dinesh Gundu Rao
Mangaluru: KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Tuesday said that the Cabinet would be expanded after local bodies’ election in September.
He was speaking at a press conference held at Congress office in Mallikatte here on Saturday.
The state government has given the right status to Siddaramaiah. The Chief Minister's position will not change until the next assembly elections. Kumaraswamy will be the chief minister and will lead the state for five years. No discussions were held regarding upcoming Lok Sabha elections, he said.
The central BJP government has pushed the country into peril. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said about: development, money from abroad, support for farmers, protection of women, security and to control terrorism. But he has failed to do any developmental work so far.
The four-year report card of the central government shows the utter failure of the Narendra Modi-led government. It has failed in creating jobs for youth. The BJP is trying to win the elections here by playing with people's feelings and through Hindutva.
The BJP MPs from Karnataka have been silent on the issues like flood relief, Mahadai, Kaveri and special status for Hyderabad Karnataka. They do not raise voice against anything. The people of the country know the BJP’s mask politics.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir has become a safe place for militants during the BJP’s rule. Thousands of Indian soldiers are martyred by them. The central government is misleading the people of the country. The country will be informed about the defeat of the BJP-ruled state, he said.
Violent acts have been increasing since the BJP government came into power in the country. BJP MLAs held yatras in favor of the accused in Unnao and Kathua rape cases. With this, the BJP has come to the rescue of the accused. Women in the country are not giving any priority," he said.
Minorities, Dalits today cannot speak against the central government and the BJP. If they talk, they are being attacked. Threat calls are coming to Prof. K.S. Bhagwan, Girish Karnad, Nidummamadi
Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader, Vice-President Ivan D'Souza, Harish Kumar and others were present.
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Bihar: Estranged Nitish Kumar aide RCP Singh floats own party
Patna, Oct 31: Former Union minister RCP Singh, who had to quit his cabinet berth after falling out of favour with JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar, on Thursday floated a new party "Aap Saabki Aawaz".
Talking to reporters here on the occasion, Singh said he chose the day for the launch as besides Dipawali, it was also the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel.
Incidentally, Patel is seen as a cultural icon by the powerful OBC community Kurmi, to which both Kumar and Singh belong, and the latter profusely thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for celebrating the birth anniversary on a grand scale.
Singh, the bureaucrat-turned-politician, who did not take any question, did not speak on his relations with the JD(U), which he had once headed but left in disgrace, and the BJP, which he joined a year ago, only to remain sidelined.
He, however, made it clear that his party was looking forward to contesting the Bihar assembly polls due next year and already had prospective candidates for "140 out of 243 seats".
Singh indirectly targeted Kumar by attacking the much-touted prohibition law in the state and highlighting the deterioration in government education institutions, "a far cry from our student days when we could crack the civil services, without reservation facility and with no coaching".
Hailing from the same Nalanda district as the Bihar chief minister, Singh was an Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, and on central deputation, he first came in contact with Kumar, then the railway minister.
After assuming power in Bihar in 2005, Kumar, who was visibly impressed with the administrative acumen of Singh, persuaded the latter to come to Bihar as his principal secretary.
In 2010, Singh took voluntary retirement and joined JD(U) which helped him enjoy two consecutive terms in the Rajya Sabha.
However, in 2021, his induction into the Narendra Modi cabinet did not go down well with Kumar, who had by then grown suspicious that his protégé was planning a sabotage.
Singh was made to step down as national president of JD(U) within months of becoming the party president, and denial of another Rajya Sabha term a year later caused him to give up the ministerial berth.
By that time JD(U) rank and file was agog with rumours that Singh was plotting a split at the BJP's instance and served with a show cause notice over allegations of financial misappropriations that caused him to quit the party.
A year later, he joined the BJP which had by that time been dumped by Kumar who chose to realign a year later.
Later, Kumar's JD(U) emerged as a crucial ally of the BJP which is now short of a majority in Lok Sabha.
