Bengaluru:
The leadership friction between Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy, DK Shivakumar, has been wiped clean with a new formula whose details are coming out in bits and pieces. The final picture will emerge only after the Congress leadership in Delhi takes a call.
The two leaders, whose ties had soured in recent times over the question of chief ministership, had breakfast together this morning to broadcast a sense of letting bygones be bygones.
But political analysts say the optics of the meeting ensured the Congress avoided making a scene out of the two leaders’ strained ties – and instead found a pressure release valve that safely defused the tension with a very strong likelihood of Shivakumar taking the top post in a smooth transition of power as soon as possible. Some say as early as by March-April 2026.
The compromise formula, as it is being referred to by analysts, needs Shivakumar to keep calm and carry on as the deputy chief minister till the time the transition of power happens, sources said.
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