DK Shivakumar, Congress’s longtime troubleshooter in the south and later an aspirant for the top post in Karnataka, will take oath today. The ceremony – which takes place at 4 pm at the Lok Bhavan — comes after a tussle with his predecessor Siddaramaiah that ran for more than a year.
The tussle had its origin in an apparent promise of rotating Chief Ministership by the Congress high command when the party formed government in the state in 2023. Though none of the parties involved – Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar or the Congress brass had acknowledged it, the supporters of the two factions had kept up a sustained campaign since the government completed two years.
The Congress had finally taken action after the latest round of assembly election, which saw the party win Kerala with allies of the United Democratic Front and become part of the government in Tamil Nadu after more than six decades following a break-up with MK Stalin’s DMK and the alliance with actor-politician Vijay’s TVK (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagham),
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