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Another batch of legislators backing Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Sivakumar has flown to New Delhi to conscionable Congress precocious bid leaders, amid a power tussle wrong the ruling enactment successful Karnataka implicit the CM alteration issue, enactment sources said connected Monday (November 24, 2025).
According to sources, astatine slightest six legislators person landed successful the nationalist superior connected Sunday night.
Few much legislators are apt to question soon, to transportation for Shivakumar arsenic CM, they said.
The powerfulness tussle wrong the ruling enactment has intensified, amid speculation astir Chief Minister alteration successful the State, aft the Congress authorities reached the halfway people of its five-year word connected November 20, citing an alleged "power-sharing" statement involving CM Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar successful 2023.
The MLAs who are successful Delhi are — H C Balakrishna (Magadi), K M Uday (Maddur), Nayana Motamma (Mudigere), Iqbal Hussain (Ramanagara), Sharath Bachegowd (Hosakote), and Shivaganga Basavaraj (Channagiri), enactment sources said.
AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, who is successful Bengaluru, is scheduled to question to Delhi, and Congress apical person Rahul Gandhi is apt to instrumentality from travel abroad, sources added.
Last week immoderate legislators, astir 10 of them, supporting Mr. Shivakumar travelled to New Delhi and met Mr. Kharge, arsenic the Congress authorities completed 2.5 years successful bureau connected November 20.
Mr. Shivakumar, however, had past said helium was not alert of legislators travelling to Delhi to conscionable Mr. Kharge.
Following legislators backing Shivakumar travelling to Delhi, CM Siddaramaiah connected Saturday held much than an hr agelong gathering with Kharge astatine his residence successful Bengaluru.
While Mr. Siddaramaiah is pushing for a reshuffle of his Cabinet, Mr. Shivakumar wants the enactment to archetypal determine connected enactment change, enactment sources said.
According to respective enactment insiders, if the Congress precocious bid approves the Cabinet reshuffle, it would awesome that Mr. Siddaramaiah volition implicit the afloat five-year term, which volition scuttle the chances of Mr. Shivakumar from occupying the coveted post.
