Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah lost his cool on Friday when he was asked to comment on speculation that his deputy DK Shivakumar had fixed a date in November to take oath as the new head of the government.

Siddaramaiah became confrontational with reporters at Vidhana Soudha when pointed out that Shivakumar would take oath as the chief minister on November 21 or 26 as per a local media report.

“Who told you? Did Shivakumar tell you this?” Siddaramaiah asked, before walking away peeved.

The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government will complete two and a half years, the halfway mark in its tenure, on November 20.

It is being widely discussed in political circles that Shivakumar, who is also the Karnataka Congress president, will move to stake claim on the chief minister’s post after

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