Kumaraswamy telephones G.T. Devegowda who is at a resort in Kodagu
Mysuru: In an attempt to placate sulking Higher Education Minister G.T. Devegowda and Minor Irrigation Minister C.S. Puttaraju over the allotment of portfolios, CM Kumaraswamy held talks with them yesterday in Mysuru and has been successful in bringing them back on track.
Sources told Star of Mysore that Kumaraswamy held a meeting with C.S. Puttaraju (CSP) at the Infosys Guest House on the outskirts of the city last night. The CM had come to Mysuru on a private visit and drove to the high-security Infosys Campus where his actor-son Nikhil Kumaraswamy is shooting a movie.
After visiting his son on the sets, Kumaraswamy stayed overnight at the Guest House and summoned CSP there and spoke with him. Sources said that G.T. Devegowda was not in Mysuru and as such, the CM spoke to him over phone and summoned him to Bengaluru tomorrow to iron out issues.
Speaking to SOM this morning, CSP admitted that he had met Kumaraswamy at the Infosys Guest House. “We had talks from 11 pm to 1 am and had dinner together,” he said. The CM apparently told CSP that how he (CSP) and GTD (being CM’s close confidants) could raise a banner of revolt over portfolios.
The CM is said to have told CSP that the BJP was keeping a close watch on the ongoing developments and any wrong move either in the Congress or the JD(S) camp would directly impact the Government’s survival.
“I told the CM that I have no problems with portfolios and only my supporters are enraged and have urged me not to accept the allocated portfolio. I also told him that I will handle the Minor Irrigation efficiently,” CSP said.
C.S. Puttaraju (CSP) added that even G.T. Devegowda’s (GTD) fans are enraged over portfolios and GTD’s son Harish Gowda has already spoken to the supporters.
Puttaraju said that the CM will leave to Bengaluru on Sunday and will not meet the media. Sources said that GTD is stay put at a plush resort in Kodagu district and has remained incommunicado even after speaking to the Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK).
While HDK has spoken to GTD over phone yesterday, it is learnt that even JD(S) Supremo and former PM H.D. Deve Gowda had telephoned GTD and tried to pacify him. GTD is expected to reach Mysuru tonight from the Kodagu resort and is scheduled to reach Bengaluru tomorrow, sources added.
This post was published on June 10, 2018 6:44 pm