Karnataka CM says Congress central leadership will decide on Cabinet reshuffle

Amid talks about possible Cabinet reshuffle within the ruling party circles and Ministerial aspirants openly expressing their aspirations Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said the Congress central leadership would decide on thisCharging the BJP with pushing the state to financial bankruptcy and debt while in power Siddaramaiah said he was ready to present a white paper in the legislative Assembly on the financial position of the state during Congress and saffron partys tenureThere is nothing wrong in aspiring to be a Minister but whether to expand the cabinet or to do anything else in this regard it is for the high command to decide It is not us who will decide he said in response to a question on the possibility of the exercise and several legislators aspiring to become a MinisterGovernment Chief Whip in the Legislative Assembly Ashok Pattan had recently claimed that a cabinet reshuffle was on cards and counted himself as a ministerial aspirantThe MLA from Ramdurg had said AICC general secretaries Randeep Singh Surjewala and K C Venugopal have assured him that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle after twoandahalf years in which senior leaders like him will be accommodatedMaking a case for himself to become a minister Shantinagar MLA N A Haris too has said Not tomorrow I should have become a minister yesterday I am qualified for itResponding to a question on opposition BJP calling his administration ATM government and accusing it of corruption through collection Siddaramaiah denied the charge and termed it falseAccusing BJP of operation lotus he said where did they get the money from They have made Karnataka bankrupt who is responsible They did not generate power in the state and are responsible for the power crisis in the state What moral right do they haveOperation Lotus is a reference to the BJP allegedly luring several opposition MLAs to defect to ensure stability of its then government headed by B S Yediyurappa in 2008Seeking to know what the BJP has done for the state while in power the CM claimed the principal opposition party led the state into bankruptcy and pushed the state into debtDespite not having funds they issued work orders called for tenders and kept bills pending before leaving power There are about Rs 30000 crore pending bills Who is responsible for this Was such a thing there during our tenure earlier let them say Im ready to present a white paper on the financial position of the state during ours and BJPs tenure in the assembly Siddaramaiah saidThe BJP which has been rejected by the people are making politically motivated allegations against Congress government he said adding that the ruling party has never misused any funds or indulged in any wrong deeds as being alleged to fund the party for elections in five statesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever