The Congress party has appointed senior party leader BK Hariprasad as the new president of its Karnataka unit to succeed DK Shivakumar.
The appointment came hours after Shivakumar took oath as the new chief minister along with 13 other ministers. Shivakumar replaces Siddaramaiah who had resigned from the chief minister’s position a few days ago in accordance with the directives from the party high command.
Hariprasad is also a permanent invitee to the CWC and is known to be close to Nehru- Gandhi family.
Last October, Hariprasad courted controversy when he dubbed RSS as ‘Indian Taliban’. He, along with Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge, had consistently attacked RSS over the last few months calling for the organisation’s registration and its source of income to be revealed to the public.
DKS, Siddaramaiah congratlate Hariprasad
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and former CM Siddaramaiah on congratulated Hariprasad, and expressed confidence about the party strengthening further under his leadership.
“I have resigned as the Congress president. Hariprasad has been appointed as the new president. He is a senior and honest worker of the party. He has been a Rajya Sabha member and an MLC…under his leadership, we will have to work to build and strengthen the party,” CM Shivakumar said addressing party leaders and office bearers on Wednesday.
Siddaramaiah in a post on ‘X’ said, “There is confidence that your ideological commitment, long political experience, dedication to the party, and life of struggle will lead the state Congress party in a new direction.”