India, Dec. 3 -- Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar flew into Delhi on Wednesday, a day after his second breakfast meeting with chief minister Siddaramaiah amid a tussle for the top position in the state.

But the agenda of the trip was not more political meetings, but attending the wedding of a former bureaucrat whom the Congress leader befriended during his nearly 50-day stint in Tihar jail in 2019 on corruption allegations, people aware of the matter told HT.

According to a person from Shivakumar's team who didn't want to be named, after landing at 3pm in the national capital, Shivakumar was set to attend the wedding of former Haryana IAS officer Sanjeev Kumar. Initially a whistle-blower, Kumar spent a decade in jail in con...