Bengaluru: As the power struggle in Congress unravels, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s camp is perceptibly preparing the ground for either him to retain the top job or get someone from the ‘Ahinda’ stables to replace him.

When Siddaramaiah’s son, Yathindra, pitched Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi, an ST, as his father’s ideological successor, it was seen as the stiffening of the argument that power must vest within the Ahinda fold.

The Ahinda - a political grouping comprising minorities, backward classes and Dalits - has been Siddaramaiah’s electoral edifice.

Political pundits agree that under Siddaramaiah’s Ahinda strategy, the prospects of his deputy D K Shivakumar, a Vokkaliga, gets scuttled.

Siddaramaiah, who belongs to the backward Kuruba community, was expelled from JD(S) in

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