Karnataka Congress suspends KGF Babu for ’party won’t win more than 80 seats’ remark

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Jan 07, 2023: Congress leader Yousuf Shariff alias KGF Babu was suspended from the party on Friday after he said that the party would not win more than 80 seats in the Legislative Assembly elections scheduled to be held in April-May this year. The disciplinary committee of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) issued his suspension order for speaking against the party.

 

KGF Babu also entered the party office on Friday and created a ruckus, accusing former MLA Devraj and other leaders of trying to use rowdies to threaten him.

KGF Babu is the ticket aspirant for the Chickpet constituency in Bengaluru. While addressing the media at the KPCC office, he said, "The party had been giving priority to caste and seniority and not winnability while considering applications for the ticket. “The party will not cross 80 seats and there is overconfidence among the leaders that the party will come to power." (sic)

"Some are conspiring within the party. Congress won’t cross 80 seats. We’re being overconfident," Babu told reporters.

Following this, K. Rahman Khan, chairman of the disciplinary committee of the KPCC, issued a notice suspending him for his “repeated anti-party statements” to the media. He had not given a satisfactory reply to earlier notices, Khan said.

Shariff had declared assets close to Rs 1,700 crore in his affidavit to the Election Commission in 2021,making him arguably Karnataka’s richest politician.

Assembly elections are due in Karnataka in April-May 2023. The BJP will not be in alliance with another party for the 2023 Karnataka polls, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said.

Courtesy: India Today