The tug of war over the Karnataka Chief Minister post has once again reached the doorsteps of the Congress high command in Delhi. A group of Karnataka MLAs close to Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar arrived in the Capital Thursday, while some others are expected to arrive in the coming days, said sources. The MLAs flew to Delhi with a request for the party’s central leadership: to promote Shivakumar to the top post in the state going by the “power-sharing arrange­ment between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy”. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who was returning from a dinner hosted in the honour of former Chile president Michelle Bachelet, awarded the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize-2024, was taken by surprise when he saw the MLAs at his residence late in the evening and barely

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