{"id":15970,"date":"2026-06-02T22:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/siddaramaiah-appointed-as-member-of-congress-working-committee-days-after-resigning-as-karnataka-cm-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:26:47","slug":"siddaramaiah-appointed-as-member-of-congress-working-committee-days-after-resigning-as-karnataka-cm-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/siddaramaiah-appointed-as-member-of-congress-working-committee-days-after-resigning-as-karnataka-cm-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddaramaiah appointed as member of Congress Working Committee days after resigning as Karnataka CM | 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-131468666,imgsize-60428,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/supporters-of-chief-minister-siddaramaiah-on-thursday-staged-protests-in-several-parts-of-karnataka.jpg\" alt=\"Siddaramaiah appointed as member of Congress Working Committee days after resigning as Karnataka CM\" title=\"Siddaramaiah (File photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Siddaramaiah (File photo)\">Siddaramaiah (File photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday announced the appointment of former <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/karnataka-chief-minister\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Karnataka chief minister<\/a> Siddaramaiah to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party\u2019s top decision-making body.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/> In a statement, Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal said, \u201cHon\u2019ble Congress president has appointed Shri Siddaramaiah as Member of the CWC with immediate effect.<!-- -->\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/> The appointment comes just days after Siddaramaiah stepped down as chief minister, marking the end of his record-long tenure of over eight years across two terms.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>His appointment as a CWC member also came on the eve of the swearing-in ceremony of his long-time rival and now-former deputy, DK Shivakumar, who is set to take oath as the new chief minister.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar were involved in a long-running internal tussle over the post, often taking indirect swipes at each other.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/> Their rivalry stemmed from an alleged understanding with the Congress leadership after the party\u2019s May 2023 Karnataka assembly election victory. Under this reported arrangement, Shivakumar was said to have been assured the chief minister\u2019s post for the latter half of the government\u2019s five-year term, while the party initially chose veteran leader Siddaramaiah to head the government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>The tussle escalated after Siddaramaiah continued even after the first 2.5-year mark was reached in November 2025.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Last week, the Congress leadership finally resolved the matter, deciding to honour its \u201ccommitment\u201d to Shivakumar, who also serves as the Karnataka unit president of the party.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Siddaramaiah had reportedly declined a Rajya Sabha seat, choosing instead to remain active in state politics.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/siddaramaiah-appointed-as-member-of-congress-working-committee-days-after-resigning-as-karnataka-cm\/articleshow\/131468221.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siddaramaiah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday announced the appointment of former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party\u2019s top decision-making body. In a statement, Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal said, \u201cHon\u2019ble Congress president has appointed Shri Siddaramaiah as Member of the CWC with immediate effect.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970","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=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}