Bengaluru, Nov 22 – After a Vande Mataram rally outside his office, R. Ashoka, the leader of the opposition in Karnataka’s assembly, accused the Congress party of a deep split. He asserted “one group in Congress is working to retain Siddaramaiah as the Chief Minister and another group is working to unseat him” and called on the party’s high‑command to name the current chief minister outright. Ashoka went on to say “One team wants D.K. Shivakumar to become the CM, and another team is strategising and conspiring to prevent it,” warning that if Parliament’s opposition chief Rahul Gandhi and AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge fail to decide, the state administration would grind to a halt, saying officials might stop working and the government “is in a coma.” He claimed that the skirmish between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar had rendered the administrative machinery inert, describing the government as having “died” amidst power tussles. Ashoka criticised the Congress high‑command for ignoring the pressing needs of ordinary citizens, farmers and students, noting that criminal incidents were on the rise, farmers were staging protests, and the political climate in Karnataka was deteriorating sharply. “No one knows who the Chief Minister is,” he added, underscoring the paralysis at the state’s helm. He pointed out that two Congress MLAs were locked up and that Deputy CM Shivakumar had even sought their votes while visiting jail, illustrating the party’s weakened hold. Ashoka concluded that the Congress’s inability to manage its own members revealed the strength of the BJP’s opposition and stressed that the ongoing pressure on Shivakumar had exposed Siddaramaiah as “a promise‑breaker” destined to lose credibility.
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