Senior Karnataka Minister Parameshwara says ready to resign to make way for new faces if high command asks him

With voices emerging from within the party that ministers in the cabinet should be replaced with fresh faces after a while, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday said he was ready to resign if the Congress party leadership asks him to do so.

He said that the party high command would take decisions at an appropriate time regarding the cabinet reshuffle and whether three more deputy chief ministers would be appointed.

“It’s good, it is good that everyone should become minister, everyone should get an opportunity,” the 72-year-old Parameshwara said about the reported demand by ministerial aspirants to change incumbents after 20 months of this government’s tenure to make way for new faces Speaking to reporters here, he said it is for the Congress high command to decide, as appointment of ministers or their replacements are not decided at the state level.