Bengaluru: Don’t discuss CM candidature, KPCC panel tells MLAs

BENGALURU: The KPCC disciplinary committee has taken Bengaluru MLAs Zameer Ahmed Khan and Sowmya Reddy to task for making public statements on who will be the CM candidate if the Congress returns to power after the next assembly polls.
The committee headed by former MP and Union minister K Rahman Khan in its recent meeting told the duo and also other party functionaries not to comment on the issue and warned of disciplinary action.
Chamarajpet MLA Zameer Ahmed recently said nobody could stop Siddaramaiah from becoming the CM again, while his colleague from Jayanagar Sowmya Reddy, during her campaign in RR Nagar, had claimed KPCC president DK Shivakumar will be the next CM. “This talk is unnecessary as the elections are still twoand-a-half years away. Moreover, it’s something to be decided by the party,” Khan said.
“To allow such a debate to continue might lead to groupism, which is not good. The party wants to nip it in the bud,” said a senior functionary.