Drought list puts Karnataka Congress MLAs on the boil, Shivakumar calls CLP meet

Bengaluru, Sept 22 (UNI) With discontent brewing among Congress legislators over the exclusion of their constituencies from the drought-hit taluk list, Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has called a crucial Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting here on Monday evening, seeking to contain the growing unease within the ruling party. The meeting, scheduled for 7 pm at a private hotel, assumes significance as the government faces mounting pressure from its own MLAs even as the special Assembly session is underway to debate the drought situation. Several legislators are reportedly unhappy that their taluks have been left out of the drought declaration…