New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar flew into Delhi on Wednesday to attend the wedding of a former bureaucrat's son, a day after his second breakfast meeting with chief minister Siddaramaiah amid a tussle for the top position in the state.

Shivakumar attended the wedding of the son of former Haryana IAS officer Sanjeev Kumar, whom the Congress leader befriended during his nearly 50-day stint in jail in 2019 on corruption allegations, people aware of the matter told HT.

Initially a whistleblower, Kumar spent a decade in jail in connection with the state teacher recruitment scam, in which former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala was the main accused. Kumar was released in 2021 after finishing his jail term....