{"id":10805,"date":"2026-04-30T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/sonia-gandhi-sonia-gandhi-takes-our-decisions-kharge-on-speculations-over-change-of-cm-in-karnataka-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:53:09","slug":"sonia-gandhi-sonia-gandhi-takes-our-decisions-kharge-on-speculations-over-change-of-cm-in-karnataka-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/sonia-gandhi-sonia-gandhi-takes-our-decisions-kharge-on-speculations-over-change-of-cm-in-karnataka-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gandhi: &#8216;Sonia Gandhi takes our decisions&#8217;: Kharge on speculations over change of CM in Karnataka | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130628007,imgsize-18662,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130628007.jpg\" alt=\"'Sonia Gandhi takes our decisions': Kharge on speculations over change of CM in Karnataka\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Congress chief <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mallikarjun-kharge\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mallikarjun Kharge<\/a> on Thursday played down the tussle between Siddharamaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar over the chief ministerial post, saying that the party will resolve the &#8220;confusion as soon as possible.<!-- -->&#8220;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>This comes a day after Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara&#8217;s said that everyone in the ruling Congress party will welcome, if Kharge becomes the chief minister.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wLCOS vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"ap_Bf\">\n<div class=\"ZM4zO\">\n<p><i class=\"bo2C4\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->\u2018Siddaramaiah Ready To Step Down As Karnataka CM If Rahul Gandhi Asks\u2019: Ex-Minister Rajanna<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>While taking to reporters, Kharge rubbished the speculations and said that <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sonia-gandhi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Sonia Gandhi<\/a> takes decisions regarding him.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>&#8220;You (media), he (Parameshwara) and people at the top say that it is better if I become (the chief minister). But, more than fate, as per my ideology and as per my service to the party so far, Sonia Gandhi takes decisions regarding me,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>&#8220;But, that question does not arise now. There is already a chief minister here. If Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and I, together, have to take any decision in the direction of a change, it will take some time. Let&#8217;s wait and see,&#8221; he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Supporters of deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar have been insisting on his on his elevation in lines with a rumoured power-sharing agreement with CM Siddaramaiah when the party won the 2023 assembly polls.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Amid speculations about the leadership change in Karnataka, Parameshwara said on Wednesday that everyone in the ruling Congress party will welcome, if Kharge, a senior politician with a lot of experience, becomes the chief minister.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>A power struggle between Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar intensified as soon as the Congress government in Karnataka completed its halfway mark in November last year. Several MLAs and MLCs from DKS camped in Delhi to push the party high command to make him the next chief minister.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>DK Shivakumar added to the speculations after he claimed that there had indeed been \u201ca confidential understanding on leadership transition among five-six leaders\u201d soon after Congress won a landslide in the 2023 elections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>The deputy chief minister made the first reference to the power pact but stopped short of divulging more details. \u201cThis is confidential. I don\u2019t want to speak publicly on this,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>The leadership tussle within the ruling party has intensified amid speculation about a possible change of chief minister after the Congress government completed the halfway mark of its five-year term on November 20, 2025. <!-- -->The speculation has been fuelled by the reported &#8220;power-sharing&#8221; arrangement between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar at the time of government formation in 2023.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>After Congress won in Karnataka assembly in 2023, party high command was in a fix over the CM face. After days of deliberation, the party went ahead with Siddaramaiah&#8217;s name given his seniority and popularity. However, an agreement was reportedly reached that DK Shivakumar would take over the reins in the second half of the government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/sonia-gandhi-takes-our-decisions-kharge-on-speculations-over-change-of-cm-in-karnataka\/articleshow\/130628017.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday played down the tussle between Siddharamaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar over the chief ministerial post, saying that the party will resolve the &#8220;confusion as soon as possible.&#8220;This comes a day after Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara&#8217;s said that everyone in the ruling Congress party will welcome, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}