Siddaramaiah met senior ministers to chalk out a strategy to control growing discontent after the June 19 major rejig which saw 14 ministers being shown the door and 13 others being inducted.
Congress sources said the chief minister made phone calls to disgruntled MLAs in an attempt to pacify them.
"There is no discontent among us, I'm talking to every one... Such things are common whenever there is cabinet reshuffle. I'm talking to all those who have expressed displeasure," Siddaramaiah told reporters here.
Siddaramaiah's move comes in the wake of a few "like- minded" party legislators deciding to meet either on Sunday or Monday to plan their next course of action, keeping the option open of pressing for leadership change.
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Siddaramaiah said he had not spoken to any ministers
individually before the reshuffle "but during the Council of Ministers meeting on June 15, I had informed (them) that I'm reshuffling and a few ministers will be dropped as we have to take new people in".
Senior leaders like Srinivas Prasad, Qamarul Islam, Ambareesh and Baburao Chinchansoor have openly criticised Siddaramaiah for dropping them without prior information.
Ambareesh has even resigned as MLA, which, however, has not been accepted.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting of senior ministers today, which the chief minister said was to discuss the Deputy Commissioners' meeting on June 27 and 28, Energy Minister D K Shivakumar expressed hope that those leaders who were now unhappy will continue to work and guide the party without doing any "damage" to it.
Siddaramaiah and Mallikarjuna Kharge (Congress Leader in Lok Sabha), whose son Priyank Kharge has managed to find a ministerial slot are under direct attack from senior MLAs who were ministerial aspirants.
Hitting out at Kharge, six-time MLA Malka Reddy today said "...What has he done, making his sons minister, MLA... He wants his family to grow in politics and we should remain like slaves."