{"id":13044,"date":"2026-05-27T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/karnataka-cm-buzz-siddaramaiah-dks-to-meet-for-breakfast-on-thursday-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:51:20","slug":"karnataka-cm-buzz-siddaramaiah-dks-to-meet-for-breakfast-on-thursday-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/karnataka-cm-buzz-siddaramaiah-dks-to-meet-for-breakfast-on-thursday-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka CM buzz: Siddaramaiah, DKS to meet for breakfast on Thursday | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\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-131340046,imgsize-72514,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/siddaramaiah-dk-shivakumar-image-credit-ians.jpg\" alt=\"Karnataka CM buzz: Siddaramaiah, DKS to meet for breakfast on Thursday\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Amid mounting speculation over a possible leadership change in Karnataka, deputy chief minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dk-shivakumar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">DK Shivakumar<\/a> is scheduled to attend a breakfast meeting convened by chief minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/siddaramaiah\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Siddaramaiah<\/a> at the CM\u2019s official residence, Kaveri, in Bengaluru on Thursday at 9 am.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The meeting comes a day after intense discussions in Delhi between the Karnataka leadership and the Congress high command fuelled buzz over a potential transition in the state\u2019s top post.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>According to party sources, Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar separately met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Surjewala for more than six hours on Tuesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Sources told TOI that Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have asked Siddaramaiah to consider taking up a national role in the party and respond within a week. The Congress leadership is also believed to have discussed a possible Rajya Sabha berth for the Karnataka CM as part of a leadership transition plan.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Speaking to reporters after the meetings in Delhi, KC Venugopal dismissed reports of a leadership change and said discussions were limited to the upcoming Rajya Sabha and legislative council elections. He termed the reports as \u201cspeculation\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Party insiders, however, said Siddaramaiah conveyed that he had no ambitions in national politics, though Rahul Gandhi was keen on bringing the veteran OBC leader into the national fold to strengthen the party organisation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>The latest developments are being seen as a major breakthrough for Shivakumar, who has long maintained that a rotational chief ministerial arrangement had been promised to him when the Congress formed the government in Karnataka after the 2023 assembly elections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Sources also said Siddaramaiah sought time to consult loyalists before taking a final decision. Discussions are expected to continue in Bengaluru following his return from Delhi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>The Congress leadership is learnt to be working towards a negotiated transition to avoid internal instability similar to the crisis witnessed in Rajasthan during the party\u2019s previous regime.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/karnataka-cm-buzz-dks-siddaramaiah-to-meet-for-breakfast-on-thursday\/articleshow\/131340055.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Amid mounting speculation over a possible leadership change in Karnataka, deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar is scheduled to attend a breakfast meeting convened by chief minister Siddaramaiah at the CM\u2019s official residence, Kaveri, in Bengaluru on Thursday at 9 am.The meeting comes a day after intense discussions in Delhi between the Karnataka leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044","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=13044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}