A day after Congress registered a thumping victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections, the party president of the state unit DK Shivakumar visited Sri Kadasiddeshwara Mutt in Tumkur’s Nonavinakere on Sunday. Earlier in the day, speaking about his visit, the Congress leader said he would go to Nonavinakere to meet his spiritual guru, Ajjayya.
"I am going to Nonavinakere to meet my spiritual guru, Ajjayya. I had said that our numbers will be 136," DK Shivakumar said, as quoted by ANI. DK Shivakumar said that while people allege differences between him and Siddaramaiah, he also clarified that "there is no difference" between the both of them.
"Some people say that I have differences with Siddaramaiah but I want to clear that there is no difference between us. Many times I have sacrificed for the party and stood with Siddaramaiah ji. I have given cooperation to Siddaramaiah," DK Shivakumar said, as per news agency ANI. The remark came after he visited Sri Kadasiddeshwara Mutt in Tumkur’s Nonavinakere.
Besides DK Shivakumar other Congress leaders Bhai Jagtap, Sanjay Nirupam, and other party workers also recited 'Hanuman Chalisa' at a temple in Mumbai following the victory of the grand old party.
Congress won an absolute majority in Karnataka on Saturday with the party crossing the halfway mark of 113 seats in the 224-member assembly. Congress has won 135 seats and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 66 seats. Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) has won 19 seats. Independents have won two seats while Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha have won one seat each.
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Notably, Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar defeated JDS candidate B Nagaraju in the Kanakapura constituency by 1,22,392 votes. The next task for the Congress is to choose a chief ministerial candidate with both state Congress chief DK Shivakumar and former chief minister Siddaramaiah aspirants for the post. The supporters of Siddaramaiah and DK Shivkumar have put up posters in the state demanding they be declared as the state CM.