On Tuesday (May 16), Congress chief DK Shivakumar courted controversy after he claimed {{that a}} group of journalists was working for him to verify the victory of the grand outdated event throughout the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections.
He made the contentious remarks all through an interview with journalist Nabila Jamil of India Today. At about 4 minutes and 16 seconds into the programme, DK Shivakumar was heard claiming that he single-handedly ensured the landslide victory of the Congress event throughout the Karnataka elections.
“There were three teams working for me, apart from my AICC team…A team of journalists, my own political supporters and for the other one, I have a system in place for the past 10 years,” the Congress chief inadvertently spilt the beans.
In his spontaneous transfer of speech, DK Shivakumar revealed that he had quite a lot of journalists on his payroll, who helped modified most people notion in favour of the Congress. And he did not seem to have been bothered by his private pretend pas.
Despite ‘winning, he was not backed by his party for the post of Karnataka Chief Minister and had to settle for the position of Deputy CM. As per a report by The Economic Times, his Chief Ministerial bid was ignored by Congress for being perceived as a ‘devout Hindu’ throughout the public eye.
“Siddaramaiah, who comes from the left background, is seen as a strong ideological opponent of the RSS and the BJP. While Shivakumar has no affinity with any right-wing group, he is seen as a devout Hindu who often visits religious places and makes no effort to hide his religious inclination,” it emphasised.
The Economic Times claimed that such a alternative by the Congress event was made in delicate of the religiously polarised ambiance of Karnataka. The newspaper emphasised that Congress threw its weight behind Siddaramiah throughout the hopes of preserving its ideological ‘non-Hindu’ inclinations intact and consolidating the Muslim vote monetary establishment.