Bengaluru: Rebuking senior MLA Roshan Baig for his outburst against the party leadership, including him, Congress Legislature Party leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said his act was out of “thirst for power”.
“Roshan Baig I don’t know… maybe because he did not become Minister and as he was not given ticket for MP (Lok Saba election- he has spoken like that),” Siddaramaiah said. Speaking to reporters in Mysuru, he said, “Because of his thirst for power, such things happen, nothing can be done. The party will take care of it.”
Hitting out at Congress leaders for the party’s performance in the Lok Sabha polls as projected in the exit polls, Baig Tuesday held Siddaramaiah’s “arrogance” and KPCC chief Dinesh Gundu Rao’s “immaturity” responsible for the “flop show”.
He had also called Venugopal, who is AICC General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka, a “buffoon.”
Baig,who was also a Minister in the previous Siddaramaiah government, had also slammed the former Chief Minister for “dividing” Hindu society by attempting to give separate religion tag to Lingayat community and “abusing” the Vokkaliga
community during his tenure in the top post.
