Overview
- Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah snapped at a reporter who cited claims that D. K. Shivakumar would take oath on November 21, asking which newspaper reported it.
- Siddaramaiah has repeated that he intends to serve the full five-year term despite renewed leadership-change speculation as the government reaches its halfway point.
- He referred queries on Bengaluru’s pothole-filling deadline to Shivakumar, who holds the Bengaluru Development portfolio.
- Ministers B. Z. Zameer Ahmad Khan, H. C. Mahadevappa and Shivanand Patil publicly backed Siddaramaiah’s continuity, with Khan rejecting talk of Shivakumar joining the BJP.
- Past reports of a rotational chief minister arrangement were never confirmed, and current takeover-date assertions remain media claims without approval from the party high command.