Bengaluru, Nov. 22 -- Karnataka's simmering leadership battle burst into the open on Saturday, with Mandya MLA Ravi Ganiga's blunt demand for a change of guard giving the most direct confirmation yet that the Congress government is under internal strain.
By declaring that "this is the right moment" for D.K. Shivakumar to take over as chief minister and insisting that any past commitment "must be honoured", Ganiga effectively pushed the Congress high command into a corner, forcing it to address the long-denied question of power sharing. His remarks marked the clearest admission from within the ruling party that the halfway-mark churn is real, not rumour.
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