The Congress will be contesting the next Assembly elections in Karnataka, which is less than 10 months away, on the plank of “Kannadiga pride” against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) effort to indirectly impose Hindi on the State, former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah said.
Mr. Siddaramaiah was in Delhi to meet former Congress president Rahul Gandhi. He had a luncheon meeting on Tuesday, along with his colleague and State Congress president D. K. Shivakumar. Both are contenders for the Chief Minister’s chair and have a long history of power struggle. The meeting was called to arrive at a working relation before the upcoming elections.
“There are no differences between me and Mr. Shivakumar. The meeting was only to deliberate upon our strategy ahead for the Assembly elections. A united Congress will fight the polls,” Mr. Siddaramaiah insisted.
