India, Jan. 5 -- When he hits seven years and 240 days in office across terms, Siddaramaiah is set to become Karnataka's longest-serving chief minister on January 7, surpassing the record held by D Devaraj Urs. Crediting the milestone to the "blessings of the people", he noted that Urs had served for seven years and 239 days.

Asked whether his record could be broken, Siddaramaiah said records are meant to be broken, drawing a sports analogy to compare his feat with Virat Kohli breaking Sachin Tendulkar's records in cricket.

"I never said that no one can break my record. Someone may emerge to break my record of the longest serving Chief Minister or the one who presented the maximum budgets."

Addressing reporters, he said, "The matter of...