The Winter Session of the Karnataka legislature began in the North Karnataka district of Belagavi Monday as the shadow of a power tussle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar loomed over the Congress government even as the Opposition BJP-JD(S) alliance looks to corner it.

Despite Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, often referred to as DKS, putting up a show of unity and signalling a temporary truce to their power struggle at the instance of the Congress central leadership – they hosted breakfast meetings for each other on November 29 and December 2 – the fault lines in the Congress are likely to re-emerge after the legislature session.

The Belagavi session is expected to see the Opposition question the Congress for allowing the administration of the state to take

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