NEW DELHI: Amid the leadership crisis in the Karnataka Congress party, Deputy Chief Minister and the party’s state President D.K. Shivakumar has said that he will be meeting the party’s high command separately.
While answering a question on whether he will seek separate meetings with Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, he stated on Monday in Delhi, “All these things will be there within the party.” When further asked whether this was important at this juncture, Shivakumar replied, “Don’t worry.”
He further said, “I need to meet AICC President Mallikarjun KhargeAICC General Secretary and MP K.C. Venugopal, and others. I have already met Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi during lunch yesterday. I have met everyone.”
He said, “Mallikarjun Kharge ji and I need to go together to Karnataka to attend the funeral of veteran Congress leader Shamanur Shivashankarappa. We were supposed to leave Delhi by 8 a.m., but due to cloud cover, the travel has been postponed.”
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