Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son, Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah , has perfected an art his party could do without—the art of putting both his father and the Congress on the backfoot.

At a time when the Congress has been working overtime to manufacture the optics of unity through carefully curated, widely publicised in the media, breakfast meetings between Siddaramaiah and his Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, it is Yathindra who has been consistently undoing that narrative. One remark at a time.

Just when Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar began chanting the “all is well" and “we leave it to the high command" mantra—smiling for the cameras over idlis, uppittu, and naati-koli saru—Yathindra once again stepped into the political minefield.

His latest statement is that his father will

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