Karnataka’s DKS-Siddaramaiah tussle and RSS hypocrisy on Preamble

Karnataka’s DKS-Siddaramaiah tussle and RSS hypocrisy on Preamble | South Central Ep 34

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In Episode 34 of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath first discuss the tussle between DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah over the state’s Chief Minister-ship. “The Congress in Karnataka is heavily dependent on DKS. If he moves away from the party, there is nobody with that kind of stature,” says special guest Professor Chandan Gowda. He adds that while DKS has so far focused on Bengaluru’s infrastructure and futuristic development, it remains to be seen if he can be associated with the state’s overall welfare requirements, as a leader. Dhanya asks if Siddaramaiah will step down, whether the party also thinks this is due to DKS, like he himself seems to believe. “DKS has stayed extremely loyal to the Congress, and he brings a certain kind of heft to the party. The Congress must really think about what it will do in case DKS leaves the party over this tussle,” she says. Pooja Prasanna, however, feels that the credit attributed to DKS may be slightly exaggerated, though she agrees that there should not be so much confusion in the matter if DKS was promised the CM-ship after two or three years of the government being in power. In the second half of the conversation, the hosts delve into the hypocrisy of the RSS with activist Shivasundar. The General Secretary of the RSS recently questioned why the words ‘secular and socialist’ were added to the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. “The RSS’s mouthpiece, Organiser, had, in 1949, rejected the Constitution, which it later took a u-turn from for political mileage. While we can discuss the political intentions of Indira Gandhi in introducing the 42nd Amendment, today, if we remove words like secular and socialist, it will mean we are alienating the marginalised,” says Pooja Prasanna. Shivasundar says that the RSS’s claim is also a deeper ideological agenda to thwart the idea of a secular India as against the RSS’s idea of a Brahminical India. Leena Ragunath says that if the RSS feels that Indira’s emergency was terrible, yet feels comfortable with today’s undeclared emergency, two minutes of silence for them! Tune in to this charged, pointed conversation. Subscribe to Newslaundry: https://rzp.io/rzp/nlsm Help us unpack India's e-waste underworld: https://rzp.io/rzp/QSFE4EH9 Download the accessible Newslaundry app: https://www.newslaundry.com/download-app Join us on WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va61PEo0QeacOqU9vr2k 00:00 Introduction 01:46 Announcements 03:31 Headlines 14:26 Karnataka State Leadership 35:31 Preamble 01:13:08 Letters 1:17:47 Recommendations Follow and engage with us on social media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/newslaundry Twitter: https://twitter.com/newslaundry Instagram: https://instagram.com/newslaundry

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