Addressing media persons during his Mangalore visit on Sunday, he urged the minister aspirants, who failed to get berth during Saturday's cabinet expansion, not to feel neglected as there will be another round of cabinet expansion in the near future.
“It is not time to exert pressure on Chief Minister and stage protest for being denied of ministerial berth. If minister-aspirant MLAs continue protest, then there will be no difference between our party and BJP, which was rejected by people of Karnataka,” he warned.
Mr Moily, who represents Chikkaballapura as M P, also said that his Lok Sabha constituency also has been denied of representation in recent Karnataka cabinet expansion. “I have to speak to the CM and party High Command in this regard,” he added.
Protests
It is worth mentioning here that the non-inclusion of D.K. Shivakumar, Kagodu Thimmappa, A.B. Maalakaraddy and A. Manju in the Congress Ministry on Saturday triggered protests in their Assembly constituencies.
Mr. Shivakumar's supporters, numbering around 3,000, who came from Kanakapura staged a protest outside the residence of the former External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna at Sadashivanagar here. Mr. Krishna was not in the house and his wife Prema Krishna persuaded them not to get disheartened as party president Sonia Gandhi was likely to speak to Mr. Shivakumar.
One person among the mob doused himself with kerosene, but the timely police intervention prevented any untoward incident.
Supporters of Mr. Thimmappa in Shimoga, A. Manju in Hassan, and Dr. Maalakaraddy in Yadgir town also staged protests.
In Mysore, supporters of Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait staged a dharna in front of Mahatma Gandhi bust on Vani Vilas Road. One of them allegedly attempted suicide by dousing himself with kerosene, but it was foiled, and the police took the protester, identified as Feroze Khan, into custody.
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