Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in Karnataka R Ashoka on Friday criticized the power struggle between the prime minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar as an “endless tenovela”.
In a statement, Ashoka asked the Congress to focus on governance.
“As the Congress leadership in Delhi watches silently, Karnataka is paying the price for an endless power tussle between Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar,” Ashoka said.
Ashoka clarified that the BJP had no interest in the internal politics of the Congress. “But when this endless clash of egos begins to paralyze governance, it becomes our duty to speak up,” he said.
The BJP leader also took a dig at the new buzz around the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s Chief Ministerial Prospects. “For more than 1,000 days, the state has seen a government that is distracted, divided and unjust. And now, the latest twist – the rumors of Kharge being ‘deployed’ from Delhi to fix Bengaluru, confirms only one thing: the total failure of leadership in the state,” Ashoka said.
Ashoka said the “so-called Congress high command” looked “so weak that it cannot manage its own party”. Amid the power struggle, Ashoka said infrastructure was crumbling, investment was slowing and governance was collapsing.
“The people of Karnataka did not vote for a 5-year factional wrestling match. They voted for a stable and functional government,” Ashoka said. “It is time for the Congress to stop treating Karnataka as a personal property and start governing, or admit it has failed.”
