Bengaluru, 1 Jan

Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Thursday said he expects a “political promotion” pending the Congress High Command’s decision. He also hinted about his Chief Ministerial aspirations, asserting he too has ambitions.

The senior leader, who had served as state Congress chief in the past, had in November said that he too was in the race to become the CM, amid a power tussle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar.

“The political promotion should happen in (2026). It is left to our High Command,” Parameshwara told reporters. “I have lived so far as an optimist, so it is not something new to me. Don’t you have (ambition) to become something in life.

A human should have ambition, if not he is not human.” “I too have ambition like everyone else. When I joined politics, naturally I had an ambition to become MLA and Minister. From each step there will be a desire to go one more step ahead, but it is all left to our High Command,” he added.

Although Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar held a series of breakfast meetings where they apparently signalled that their power-tussle had ended for the time being, members of Siddaramaiah’s camp have said that if there was to be a CM change, Parameshwara should take the reigns and become the State’s first Dalit head.