Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Dec 15: Former CM and leader of Congress legislature party of the state Siddaramaiah is mulling resigning from his position of MLA, media reports claim.

Siddaramaiah, who is being treated in a private hospital in the city for heart-related ailment will be discharged on Sunday December 15 in all probability.

Close aides of Siddaramaiah and leaders of state Congress, who had come to inquire his well-being in the hospital have pressured him to take back his resignation, which he has offered for the position of leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) and opposition. It is gathered that Siddaramaiah has said that there is no question of backtracking from his decision.

It is also said that Siddaramaiah confided in his close aides, saying, "I had decided to take one step further - of resigning from my MLA position also. However, at the last moment, I decided against it. But I am still thinking about it."

His well-wishers in the party, who were taken aback by this disclosure have requested him not to take such a drastic step. However, Siddaramaiah reportedly asked, "If one rooster does not crow, will there be no dawn?"

"Sun rises and sets every day. Similarly I am not inevitable for politics. Even if I am not there, politics will continue," said Siddaramaiah according to sources, and thereby applied brakes to the efforts of his close aides to make him take back his resignation from the post of CLP leader.