Responding to Congress leader and member of Legislative Council B.K. Hariprasad’s statement, Minister for Youth Empowerment, Sports, and Tribal Welfare B. Nagendra said that he was not targeting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah when he said that he knew how to make a CM or to force a CM to step down.
“Mr. Hariprasad is a senior Congressman who served the party in various capacities. He had worked as party in charge for Jharkhand and in this background, he must have made this statement keeping his role in making Bhupesh Baghel the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. I don’t think his statement has anything to do with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who is the post-popular and pro-Backward Classes leader after former Chief Minister late Devaraj Urs,” he said at a media conference in Ballari on Saturday.
Dismissing the allegations that Mr. Hariprasad was upset as he was denied a berth in the Siddaramaiah Cabinet, Mr. Nagendra claimed that the distribution of portfolios was made based on a consensus among party leaders and there was no dissent in the party.
