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When Siddaramaiah returned to the chief minister’s chair in May 2023, it wasn’t just a comeback. It was an old warhorse walking into the arena again, determined to prove that the legend of 2013-2018 was a choice that people made under his leadership to give the Congress a chance, and that he could still command Karnataka’s politics on his own terms.

Siddaramaiah once governed like a man with nothing to lose. Today, he governs like a man with everything to protect—his legacy, his position, his place in history. Whether he rises above this halfway-mark turbulence or gets trapped in it will decide how Karnataka remembers him: as the chief minister who matched the aspirations of the people, or the chief minister who almost did.

Ten years earlier, his first full term

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