Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Priyank Kharge who was inducted into the Siddaramaiah Cabinet after winning the Assembly elections in 2013 for the first-time is really a ‘special baby’ for the Karnataka State, Kalaburagi MP Umesh Jadhav has said.
Addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Saturday, Dr. Jadhav said that Mr. Kharge got a plum portfolio after becoming a legislator for the first time. He becomes IT&BT and Tourism Minister in 2016, again in Congress-JD(S) coalition government in 2018 Mr. Kharge got Social Welfare portfolio and now [in 2023] he bagged the key RDPR and also the IT&BT portfolios effortlessly, so I consider him [Priyank Kharge] as ‘special baby’ of Karnataka, he criticised.
Ignoring the Chief Minister’s instruction for organising the ‘Janaspandana’ programme at the district headquarters, Mr. Kharge conducted the Janaspandana at Chincholi taluk last month. Mr. Kharge, compares himself to our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and takes decisions as per his convenience. So obviously I call him a ‘special baby’, Dr. Jadhav ridiculed.
