Bengaluru, Nov. 29 -- The much-publicised breakfast meeting between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar may have succeeded in offering the Congress a brief moment of calm. But senior party insiders concede that the central question is still haunting the government, who completes the five-year term, remains as unsettled as ever.
Described by party as a "cordial" interaction, the meeting is widely viewed as an attempt to manage optics ahead of the December 8 Assembly session, where the BJP is preparing to mount an aggressive challenge. Yet the real issue refuses to go away: a transition pact forged in 2023 but never publicly acknowledged.
According to senior Congress functionaries, a tacit pact exists: The te...