Over 10 Congress MLAs — including a minister — aligned with Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar have flown to Delhi to meet the party’s top leadership, signalling a brewing power struggle in the state. Their move coincides with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah completing 2.5 years in office and publicly denying claims that he had accepted a rotational chief ministership, which would require him to pass the baton to Shivakumar after this period. Advertisement

More legislators are likely to reach the national capital on Friday, where they intend to meet Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and General Secretary KC Venugopal to push for what they insist was a 2023 internal power-sharing agreement.

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