Siddaramaiah camp to take 27 MLAs abroad 'to counter DKS push for CLP meeting'

BENGALURU: A overseas circuit by a bloc of Congress legislators aligned with CM Siddaramaiah has injected volatility into Karnataka politics, sharpening a powerfulness conflict with lawman CM DK Shivakumar implicit a long-speculated transition.About 27 Congress MLAs and MLCs are acceptable to permission for Australia and NZ Tuesday, enactment insiders said. Legislators importune the question is routine, but wrong the enactment it is seen arsenic a tactical determination to undercut Shivakumar's propulsion for a Congress legislature enactment gathering to property for a alteration astatine the top.Congress returned to bureau successful 2023 amid speech of an unwritten power-sharing woody nether which DKS would win Siddaramaiah. Anticipating a enactment propulsion earlier fund league March 6, Siddaramaiah campy is said to person encouraged prime legislators to travel. The precocious bid moved to rein successful damage, with Randeep Surjewala calling MLAs to defer plans. Some complied, but others went ahead, signalling campy loyalties.