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By-election tickets only to those who follow party principles: Dinesh Gundu Rao

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Bengaluru: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) held a crucial meeting here on Thursday, August 1, to discuss several party issues.

The meeting was attended by leaders such as former chief minister Siddaramaiah, former Assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, former MLA C M Ibrahim, former ministers D K Shivakumar, H K Patil and others. 

During the meeting, the party leadership discussed the strategies to be adopted if a by-election comes up. Decisions as to what should be done next about the 14 disqualified party MLAs and the recent state political developments were also discussed.

As per the current scenario, the by-elections will any way be conducted as around 17 MLAs belonging to both the Congress and JDS have been disqualified.

The party leaders also decided to place one senior leader in every constituency where the by-elections are to be carried out, in order to endure that their candidate wins.

After the meeting, Dinesh Gundu Rao said, “We have discussed taking legal action against the 14 disqualified MLAs of the party, as we want to teach a lesson to all those who stood against the party.”

“As we have expelled the 14 MLAs, I request the party workers not to interact with them. We have dissolved the Block Congress Committee in the disqualified MLAs’ constituencies,” he added. 

“In each of the Assembly constituencies represented by the 17 disqualified MLAs, we have appointed one senior leader and also have formed a committee. Only those who strictly follow the party’s principles will be given the ticket”, he said.

Meanwhile, Rao accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and its leaders for allegedly being involved in “horse trading” and “making” the coalition MLAs rebel against their own parties/

This was the first party meeting to be held after the Congress-JDS coalition government was dissolved.

By-election tickets only to those who follow party principles: Dinesh Gundu Rao
By-election tickets only to those who follow party principles: Dinesh Gundu Rao

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