One version is more than Rahul Gandhi, it was his lawmaker sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who wanted Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah to quit.
The Congress party is believed to have offered him a Rajya Sabha seat, but the veteran leader expressed no interest in shifting to national politics.
Once told about Rahul's mind; K C Venugopal. Randeep Surjewala, and visibly surprised Siddaramaiah proceeded to the residence of Energy Minister K J George.
Ministers close to him — Byrathi Suresh, H C Mahadevappa, and G Parameshwara — joined the gathering, where he disclosed that he had been asked to resign. For the chief minister, it was almost a shock.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah belongs to the Kuruba Gowda community, which is a traditional pastoral and shepherd community classified as an Other Backward Class (OBC).
His background as a non-dominant OBC leader has heavily shaped his political identity as a champion of backward classes and AHINDA (a coalition of minorities, backward classes, and Dalits).
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah did not start politics with Congress.
He spent a significant portion of his early political career with the Janata Dal factions.
Before joining Congress in 2006, he served as the Secretary-General of the Janata Dal and was twice appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka while with the Janata Dal (Secular).
In 1994, he was elected as a Janata Dal MLA and served as the Finance Minister in the cabinet led by H D Deve Gowda.
If Siddaramaiah now comes to Rajya Sabha; this may help the Congress retain 24 Akbar Road office. He has been promised a bigger role as OBC face for 2029 parliamentary polls.
This at a time when Rahul Gandhi has aggressively sharpened the Congress’s social justice and caste census pitch across the country.
The AICC president Malikarjun Kharge is the Dalit face - also from Karnataka.
As KPCC chief, Shivakumar played a central role in rebuilding the Congress after its 2019 collapse, spearheading the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka and leading the party’s successful 2023 Assembly campaign.
The organisational position will now become important in the event D K Shivakumar makes it as the chief minister.
A Vokkaliga strongman from Old Mysore, Shivakumar likely to occupy the Chief Minister’s chair. Congress may look at appointing a fresh face as the second in command in the State Cabinet.
The Congress leadership in a crucial meeting in Delhi on May 26th said that the party now needed him in Delhi.
Assembly elections in Karnataka are due by April-May 2028.
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