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Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, in an exclusive interview, confidently predicted that the Congress will return to power in Karnataka with an even bigger mandate and claimed the party could win 20 Lok Sabha seats from the state

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00:00no karnataka chief minister in over 30 you know what almost 40 years has been re-elected no
00:08government has got re-elected it's taken a more than 40 years are you confident that you can get
00:13re-elected in 28 or is it too late you have only one and a half year to prove yourself
00:19are you
00:19still confident that you can win this election in karnataka will anti-incumbency strike rajdeep
00:25i came only to india today today because you believed me in panipat when rahul gandhi was
00:39going on a barajoda yatre your anchor asked me one question in panipat i said 136
00:48then you came to delhi and you interviewed me what is your intake before the election i gave
00:55with confidence and said you that be bold you are on record you can display my number will be 136
01:07you telecasted it am i right yes you telecasted and you proved right what i said you proved right
01:16i am telling you on record not only to you to the country to the all my friends across the
01:23parties
01:24i will win back with more numbers and i will see that the congress party government is formed as we
01:32as we wrap up in fact a lot of people keep asking the prime minister where does he get his
01:36energy from
01:37if i can throw the same question where does dk shukma get the energy from he doesn't sleep
01:41he wakes up at 6 a.m or 4 a.m he's on a call at 1 a.m he's
01:45outside meeting people do you sleep as your
01:47bureaucracy able to catch up with you see without hard work dwarknath without hard work there will be
01:54no pay only hard work can only pay where there is a will there is a way determination discipline
02:02dedication should be the main importance as you also do lot of dedication hard work you will also be
02:10benefited like that to come out with a successful story hard work is needed of course there is a
02:17health concern in it definitely people like you all of them are advising all that next i think
02:23even my guru also yesterday last night also he was shouting against me on my because i have to close
02:29within 10 o'clock and i should have a good sleep i think next week i will start that in
02:35fact that's
02:35my suggestion also sleep more you'll be more productive by the way i just very quickly you know
02:40you mentioned you're going to win with an even bigger margin congress party in different parts of the
02:45countries on the retreat but here in karnataka when the mlc elections took place you actually got
02:50one extra seat for the congress and the the belief is that you broke the jds and the bjp well
02:57how do you
02:58do it is there something i mean this is what the congress party needs to do you believe in samdam
03:03dandabhed
03:04politics i mean i once called you the amit shah of the congress and you were i didn't know how
03:12you
03:12reacted to that but you are called the amit shah of the congress are you the amit shah of the
03:16congress
03:16that you know how to break your opponents no no i am i don't want to be amit shah you
03:21don't want to
03:22be amit shah of the congress i don't want to be amit shah i am just small worker of the
03:26party
03:26within whatever responsibility has given in karnataka anyway how did you get one extra mlc see i am telling you
03:32i never broke bjp or janta adal among the 80 seats whatever both of them have 12 mlc has voted
03:46in
03:47favor of the congress party that means janta adal and bjp mls their representative they believe that the
03:55congress party is the future of karnataka what an idealistic answer sir okay i am it is not an
04:01answer i say they have voted yeah that is what amit shah will also that is why they have voted
04:07and they have been elected it is a confidential vote their conscious vote so they're conscious
04:14vote so that is why to show show their faces now they are creating some confusion they're not
04:21also allowing the assembly to be conducted making them and bringing out some small issue
04:26kumarswamy can't show his face to the party national level bjp leaders can't to show so every day they
04:32want it to be you're also giving a space to them let them do whatever they want but ultimately in
04:38democracy what is no so your friend is a postal ballot it is a secret ballot secret ballot their heart
04:45came
04:45out so you have they came out with an inquiry committee what happened then kumarswamy tells that
04:51i wanted to look whatever was inside the this one so i tried to put up a candidate okay so
04:58we can
04:59expect more surprises like this in future sir more surprises like this in the future of course of
05:04course politics in karnataka will have more surprises more changes more strength and this is the state
05:11when the entire national party in of the other opposition parties even in 78 was looking at this
05:17the state has given a different color they see the always the uh candle no when the light comes
05:24out always it comes from the south so this karnataka will bring karnataka then telangana that the
05:30national again in 99 into the 29 again congress party will come and you take to that rangarula gandhi
05:37will be the prime minister 2029 you're telling me again once again that rahul gandhi will be the prime minister
05:42of the in of india in 2029 you have claimed that you will have the highest number of seats the
05:47congress
05:48has had more seats in karnataka than you had last time of course we will reach 20 seats you noted
05:53from
05:53me 20 seats in lok sabha from karnataka and more in the assembly than last time dk shiv kumar all
05:59of
05:59this is on record as we end i want to leave you with a interesting story about mr dk shiv
06:05kumar
06:06i had gone to see him in his delhi house a couple of weeks ago after he had become chief
06:10minister
06:11and dk shiv kumar wanted to have a haircut now he wanted to go to his favorite barber who is
06:17in the
06:18colony the security guard came and said sir you are now chief minister you cannot have a haircut
06:23in your colony like this we will call the barber to the house he said no i will go and
06:28meet him
06:29did you have a haircut eventually at the barber shop or do you now have a vvip haircut in the
06:35bungalow
06:35no no no no no no vip for one day i paid him one day 50 rupees for the haircut
06:40in delhi
06:42if dk shiv kumar pays 50 rupees for a haircut sir at least sometimes make sure that you have a
06:49five
06:50star haircut now that you are the chief minister of the state see i believe in simple living but what
06:56things come out lot of friends come give me louis vuitton give me this one put what to do
07:04see i i want a simple life after all what is there how much you can eat how much you
07:08can
07:09it is a very small reason basic courtesy that's all okay i'm going to leave it there the man who
07:15claims
07:15to be uh the simple politician but has also made a lot of predictions here today we will hold him
07:22to all
07:22of this because of course we will have another uh karnataka round table next year ahead of the
07:28elections but uh you have a tough task sir ahead of you 18 months to go you are a man
07:33in a hurry
07:34the last time who last karnataka politician who said he was a man in a hurry or was called a
07:40man in
07:40a hurry remember was devagauda and he went on to become the prime minister of the country so it's not
07:45bad in life sir to be a man in a hurry uh but we wish you all the very best
07:50uh mr dk ship kumar and we
07:53will track you very closely uh in the months ahead thank you very much you remember one day i said
07:58with
07:58you i dream i desire for the team i dedicate for the team i discipline for the team that is
08:07why my dream
08:08will always be very successful and i'm confident karnataka will grow very high and i'll see that
08:15through karnataka india and the congress party also will grow stronger okay on that note ladies and
08:23gentlemen chief minister of karnataka dk ship kumar please give him a very big hand his first interview
08:28since he became the chief minister three months ago thank you very much sir
08:33you

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