Senior Congress leader and former state minister, D.K. Shivakumar arrested by ED in New Delhi
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| Congress former minister DK Shivakumar arrested. (Photo: PTI) |
However, most party employees and analysts say that it remains to be seen however the Vokkaliga leader emerges from the case being painted as “political vendetta" however is truly that of cash lavation for individual and probably the advantage of the party.
The developments gift the Congress with troublesome decisions to either protect its own, target building the party and a formidable opposition or risk giving an ungoverned run to the BJP within the state and Centre.
“He will either propel his career supported this or see it slide additional," A.Narayana, political analysts and college at the Azim Premji University same.
Until the social control board (ED) summons on Tues, Shivakumar was one in all the contenders for the leader of the opposition against Siddaramaiah ANd conjointly an aspirant for the post of state party president. impotence on Wed sought-after 14-day custody of inactive Congress leader D K Shivakumar from a Delhi court, declarative that he gave evasive replies and remained non-cooperative throughout the investigation into the alleged hiding case, cuckoo reportable.
“The arrest of DK Shivakumar is another example of the blood feud politics unleashed by the government, victimization agencies just like the ED/CBI & a pliant media to by selection target people," Rahul Gandhi, the previous Congress president wrote on Twitter, virtually a complete day when Shivakumar was inactive.
The Congress has used Shivakumar and also the arrest of former union minister P. Chidambaram to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah-led union government for targeting political opposition and attempting to deflect attention far from the delay in economy and job losses.
There were many reports of unrest in the state on Wed with party employees vandalizing buses and property to protest the arrest of Shivakumar, WHO has enamored kids together with his rise from a student leader to 1 of the most important and wealthiest politicians among the Congress.
He had dared Modi and Shah of Iran to arrest him to assist his money on the recognition and has conjointly attracted attention for his ability to leap to protect the party from any hint of bother, earning him monikers like ‘strongman’ and ‘troubleshooter’. However, the protests appeared unorganized in Bengaluru with solely a couple of them participating to support Shivakumar, exposing the chinks within the faction hit the party.
Though Siddaramaiah has voiced his support for Shivakumar, the 2 haven't been on superb terms, per party employees and leaders. Shivakumar had put aside his personal variations with former PM and JD(S) big cheese H.D.Deve Gowda and his son H.D.Kumaraswamy for the sake of the coalition that had irked Siddaramaiah WHO has AN ax to grind with the primary family of the JD(S).
Shivakumar was conjointly seen because the solely one who tried to avoid wasting the Kumaraswamy government whereas Siddaramaiah is being infernal for its collapse.
Shivakumar, however, is additionally suspect of being the matter, instead of a tangle thinker, as his misfortune to unfold his influence in Belagavi district sparked the primary confrontation with the powerful Jarkiholi brothers that eventually diode to 1 of them (Ramesh Jarkiholi) spearheading the rebels to defect.
Shivakumar has forever been at the forefront to protect legislators of the party from state, geographical region, and Gujarat among different places by lodging them in Eagleton Golf Resort.
The tax (I-T) department raided Shivakumar and his associates once he had lodged a minimum of forty Congress legislators from Gujarat before the Rajya Sabha elections on August 2017.
But constant ‘dirty work’, that he distributed therefore altruistically for the party, may see him being denied larger opportunities, analysts say.
“Undoubtedly, for the instant a minimum of, it might be troublesome for the Congress leadership to supply any position to Shivakumar," same Sandeep Shastri, political analyst and pro-vice-chancellor of Bengaluru-based religion University.