‘Must sacrifice’: Parameshwara backtracks on DyCM remark

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: For mer Kar nataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president G Parameshwara who was upset over being snubbed by the high command for the CM and Deputy CM’s (DCM) post backtracked on Friday, saying he was willing to “sacrifice”. “That is okay. We all have to sacrifice at some point in time. It is a good thing happening,” Parameshwara told media persons.

This is a changed stance from what he’d said on Thursday insisting that if a Dalit was not made DCM, there might be an adverse reaction to it. On Thursday, he had reacted to the KPCC president DK Shivakumar reportedly demanding that he alone be granted the DCM’s post. “What he has said might be right in Shivakumar’s point of view, but the high command’s viewpoint should be different,” Parameshwara said.

“The people, especially the Dalit community, have huge expectations. Understanding these expectations, our leadership will have to make a decision. If it doesn’t happen, naturally there will be reactions for it. There is no need for me to say it. Instead of realising it later, if they rectify it now it will be better. Or else it may cause trouble for the party. I would like to tell them to understand it,” he said, adding that he aspired to become the CM, if not the DCM at least.

He had been the DCM under the coalition government headed by HD Kumaraswamy for about a year. His comments came in the backdrop of Siddaramaiah being made the CM for a second time and Shivakumar being declared his deputy on Thursday