Bengaluru, Feb. 10 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday asserted that he has the backing of all 136 Congress legislators in the state, making a pointed political statement amid a resurfacing leadership tussle within the ruling Congress in Karnataka.
Arriving in New Delhi to attend meetings with the party's central leadership, Shivakumar responded to a question on claims by his supporters that more than 80 MLAs were backing him by quipping "136," indicating full support from the Congress Legislature Party. The remark immediately sharpened the political narrative around leadership and power-sharing arrangements in the state unit.
The internal churn has been further fuelled by Congress MLA Iqbal Hussain, who openly obj...