DKS breaks down in Assembly'Like D K Suresh is my brother, Dhruvanarayana was my brother in politics,' Shivakumar said. 
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D K Shivakumar. Credit: PTI Photo
Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar broke down while remembering Congress leader late R Dhruvanarayana during a condolence motion in the Assembly on Monday.
"Like D K Suresh is my brother, Dhruvanarayana was my brother in politics," Shivakumar said. Shivakumar also said that he wanted Dhruvanarayana to take over as the next Karnataka Congress president.
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"If he was alive, then none could've stopped Dhruvanarayana from being here as a minister." A former MP, Dhruvanarayana (62) died in March following a cardiac arrest. The Assembly also condoled the deaths of former ministers Anjanamurthy, D B Inamdar, former MLAs U R Sabhapathi, K Venkataswamy, Ophthalmologist Dr Bhujang Shetty and others.