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With the tussle implicit the Chief Minister’s station and power-sharing taking caller twists and turns by the day, Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar, who has been staking his assertion for the apical post, connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) seemed to person taken a veiled excavation astatine Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and elder leaders of the party, with a cryptic station connected X stating that “Word powerfulness is satellite power.”
Posting a connection connected X, Mr. Shivakumar said, “Keeping one’s connection is the top spot successful the world!” He further said, “The biggest unit successful the satellite was to support one’s word... Be it a judge, president, oregon anyone else, including myself, everyone has to locomotion the talk. Word powerfulness is satellite power.”
The connection appears to beryllium directed astatine the Chief Minister and his enactment bosses successful New Delhi and reminding cardinal leaders of the enactment connected the overmuch talked astir power-sharing pact that was arrived erstwhile the enactment came to powerfulness backmost successful 2023.
On Tuesday (November 25), Mr. Shivakumar made the archetypal nonstop notation to the “power sharing pact” successful the ruling Congress and said that it was “a concealed among 5 to 6 people” and that helium volition not disclose it successful public.
In what appears to beryllium a hopeless move, the KPCC main has been holding parleys with loyalists of the Chief Minister. He had met Ministers B. Z. Zameer Ahmed, Satish Jakiholi, K.J. George, and galore MLAs who are identified arsenic adjacent to the Chief Minister.
Sources claimed that Mr. Shivakumar has told the loyal ministers to Mr. Siddaramaiah that they would beryllium “looked aft well” aft helium becomes the Chief Minister and sought their enactment to unafraid the apical post.
As the developments astir the enactment contented are dragging connected denting the representation of the government, the precocious command, including AICC main Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, is expected to clasp talks with Mr. Siddaramaiah and Mr. Shivakumar to resoluteness power-sharing contented amicably.
