Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress president and deputy chief minister D.K. Shivakumar may be camping in Delhi in what is said to be his “last-ditch effort” to force a change of guard in the state, but Chief Minister Siddaramaiah doesn’t seem worried.

The 77-year-old chief minister believes his position has only become stronger with the high command unlikely to make any changes for the moment.

For now, Congress sources say, Siddaramaiah has bought time by offering to revamp his cabinet to bring in a dozen new faces while urging the top leadership to defer a discussion on the change of guard by a couple of months. Show Full Article

On 6 January, Siddaramaiah will surpass D. Devaraj Urs’s 45-year-old record to become Karnataka’s longest-serving chief minister. Urs was chief minister across

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