Bengaluru, Jan. 14 -- Chief minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar on Tuesday met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at the Mysuru airport.

Gandhi met the two leaders briefly during a stop at the airport on his way back to New Delhi from Tamil Nadu's Gudalur.

The meeting, during which Gandhi met both leaders together and also spoke to them separately, has intensified speculations about a resolution to the state's internal leadership questions.

According to a Congress worker who spoke on condition of anonymity, Gandhi did not issue any clarification on whether Siddaramaiah would continue as chief minister.

An aide of Shivakumar, also speaking on condition of anonymity, claimed that...