Karnataka: Rift between health & medical education minister reaches CM's doorsteps

cold war that has been ensuing between Karnataka health minister and medical education minister escalated on Thursday and reached chief minister’s doorstep. Highly placed sources in chief minister’s residence told Republic that B. Sriramulu paid a visit to CM with complaints against his cabinet colleague.

Karnataka health minister B. Sriramulu repeatedly complained to Chief Minister Yediyurappa that principal secretary of health department, Javed Akhtar, is a close aide of Dr K Sudhakar and thus has been briefing medical education minister ahe of him. With a host of complaints of alleged indiscipline behaviour, Ramulu demanded transfer of bureaucrat. 

According to our source, while chief minister listened to complaints by Sreeramulu patiently, he was upset at bringing such ‘trivial issues’ to him when state is fighting a massive health crisis. Yediyurappa is said to have vised Ramulu to keep his focus on ensuring that measures anunced are implemented and t bring in personal differences at this time, with an assurance that at a later time, inter-departmental problems can be handled. 

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Since outbreak of Coronavirus, a tussle for one-upmanship has broken out between two ministers given charge of handling pandemic. At beginning, Sreeramulu was occupied with his daughter’s wedding celebrations which took away a lot of his time and Sudhakar reportedly stepped in to take charge. 

But ever since, multiple occasions of discrepancy in information being disbursed by two ministers has caused confusion and even on Thursday, while Sreeramulu anunced second death due to coronavirus in Karnataka, Sudhakar has stated that reports were still awaited. 

Several such situations have led to murmurs outside of two ministries and a full-fledged territorial war within. With a medical background, Sudhakar has been spearheing media statements, er to prove his worth as a newly minted minister in Yediyurappa government. 

From deviation in groups of patients who have tested positive, to ir s and even total number of cases in state, over last few days, inconsistencies have been glaring with even press raising questions about whose version is official one. Karnataka h reported first death due to dely virus, from Kalburgi. So far, a total of 55 cases have been reported from state including four new ones on Thursday.

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