Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday said his party was going to decide on when he would be the king (on becoming the Chief Minister of the state). This came after a media person asked the Karnataka Congress chief about becoming a ‘king’ from the ‘Kingmaker’.
#WATCH | "My party has to decide," says Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar when asked that when will he be "the king" as wanted by his supporters pic.twitter.com/9DTnJLoTBX
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2023
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Notably, a ruckus was witnessed as both DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah presented their bids to become the Chief Minister when Congress surpassed the majority mark in the Karnataka Assembly Election this year. The Congress top brass, however, was able to convince Shivakumar to hold in his aspirations with a promise that he might lead the second inning in the state.
Karnataka High Court on Thursday rejected Shivakumar’s plea to quash the CBI case registered against him in a disproportionate assets case. Talking about the development, Karnataka deputy CM said he would cooperate with the probe and respect the law. Besides, he added it was the outcome of vendetta politics and the ruling BJP gave illegal permission to the CBI to register a case against him.
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“BJP government had given an illegal permission to investigate a separate case against me, though the advocate general of the BJP itself said it is not a case for CBI to investigate. I will cooperate with whatever the process is, I respect the law of this country. I know that I have not done anything wrong. My papers are clean, I am clean. It is a political vendetta which the BJP tried using and the Govt gave permission," he said.
#WATCH | On Karnataka High Court rejecting his plea to quash CBI case in disproportionate assets matter, Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar says, "...I will cooperate with whatever the process is, I respect the law of this country. I know that I have not done anything wrong. My… pic.twitter.com/4oOFCdCwEU
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2023
Besides setting aside Shivakumar’s plea, the Karnataka HC directed the CBI to conclude its investigation of the disproportionate assets case against the Congress leader and file the report within three months.
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The CBI claimed DK Shivakumar accumulated wealth disproportionate to his revealed sources of income between 2013 and 2018 when he was minister in the Congress government in the state. The FIR in the case was registered in 2020 and was later challenged by Shivakumar in Karnataka HC.