Sunil Kumar castigates Assembly Speaker for meeting AICC in-charge for Karnataka
BJP leader V. Sunil Kumar has criticized the Karnataka Assembly Speaker for meeting with Congress party officials in New Delhi. He argues that the Speaker's actions compromise the impartiality required by his constitutional office.
Why it matters
This highlights ongoing tensions regarding the neutrality of constitutional offices in Indian state politics.
Karnataka Legislative Council Chairman Saleem Ahmed with Randeep Singh Surjewala in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRAGEMENT
Former Minister and Karkala MLA V. Sunil Kumar on Wednesday, September 2, said the Congress high command, which has already reduced the dignity of a constitutional office to a mere party letterhead, has now turned the Speaker’s post into nothing short of a political appointment.
He was referring to Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker G.S. Patil meeting All India Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge and AICC general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala in New Delhi on Tuesday to express his gratitude to the party for the new position. Mr. Surjewala had shared the pictures of Mr. Patil and Legislative Council Chairman Saleem Ahmed meeting the former at his Delhi residence on Tuesday.
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