{"id":354884,"date":"2025-07-11T04:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354884"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:26:38","slug":"congress-no-change-of-cm-in-karnataka-siddaramaiah-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-no-change-of-cm-in-karnataka-siddaramaiah-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress: no change of CM in Karnataka, \u00a0Siddaramaiah to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Karnataka-Siddaramaiah-Shivakumar-likely-to-share-CM-term-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Karnataka-Siddaramaiah-Shivakumar-likely-to-share-CM-term-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Karnataka-Siddaramaiah-Shivakumar-likely-to-share-CM-term-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister Shivakumar have again dismissed speculations about a change in the State\u2019s leadership, also asserting that there was no discussion with the Congress high command over the issue of the change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTalk of a change in the Chief Minister in the state is only being discussed in the media. There is no such agreement or discussion happening within the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will remain the Chief Minister for all the five years. Our high commande, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar have already clarifies this matter,\u201d Siddaramaiah said, taking to X amid continuous speculations around the Karnataka CM post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also told media persons that the matter \u201cwas not discussed at all with the high command\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Delhi to meet Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and other senior party leaders on Thursday, Siddaramaiah said \u201cseveral important issues\u201d were discussed. \u201cIn Delhi today, AICC leaders and senior state leaders met Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence and held discussions on several important issues,\u201d he said, posting a photograph with Kharge on the social media&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite some MLAs openly supporting him for the top post in&nbsp;Karnataka,&nbsp;Shivakumar said the answer to the question had already been given and that it was not proper to discuss it again and again. Regarding MLAs\u2019 demand that he should replace Siddaramaiah as CM, Shivakumar said there will always be \u201caspirational statements by some,&nbsp; but it was unnecessary to make a comment now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister Shivakumar have again dismissed speculations about a change in the State\u2019s leadership, also asserting that there was no discussion with the Congress high command over the issue of the change.&nbsp; \u201cTalk of a change in the Chief Minister in the state is only being discussed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":343553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[16003,16457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354885,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354884\/revisions\/354885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/343553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}