NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing tussle over the chief ministerial post in Karnataka with Siddaramaiah, deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday said that both the leaders are waiting for from the high command over the decision.As soon as the Congress government in Karnataka completed its halfway mark on November 20, reports quoting Congress sources suggested that MLAs and MLCs from Shivakumar’s faction had camped in Delhi to push the party high command to make him the next chief minister.When asked when is he, along with Siddaramaiah, are going to Delhi to meet the high command, he said, “The high command said that they are going to call both of us when the perfect time comes. We will wait for the call.”Earlier, chief minister Siddaramaiah and DKS had two breakfasts together within a week, but the deadlock over the Karnataka chief ministerial post does not seem likely to end soon.The outreach came after the Congress high command nudged both leaders to present a united front ahead of the Belagavi legislature session starting December 8.DK Shivakumar added to the speculation after he claimed there had indeed been “a confidential understanding on leadership transition among five-six leaders” soon after Congress won a landslide in the 2023 elections. On the ongoing political developments in the state, Kharge played down the “internal conflict” within the party and said that the “high command” will sit together and deliberate on the issue.“Only the people there can say what the government is doing. But I would like to say that we will resolve such issues,” Kharge said.“People in the high command — Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and I — will sit together and deliberate on this… We will give the medicine when required,” he added.This was the first acknowledgment by Kharge that there is indeed a power struggle between Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar in Karnataka.
