Bengaluru, July 1 -- Cracks are beginning to show in the Karnataka Congress, with senior party MLA HA Iqbal Hussain dropping a political bombshell today by claiming that over 100 MLAs are rallying behind Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President DK Shivakumar for a larger leadership role in the state.
"I am not alone - quite a number of MLAs, around a hundred of them, have expressed the same desire for change," Hussain told reporters in Bengaluru, in what is being viewed as a direct message to the Congress high command.
His pointed remarks come against the backdrop of AICC General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala holding a series of one-on-one meetings with Congress legislators - a move widely seen as an attempt to...