Overview
- Rahul Gandhi briefly met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar at Mysuru airport, speaking with each separately as partial videos of the tarmac interactions circulated online.
- Shivakumar posted, “Even if the effort fails, the prayer does not fail,” then said the line echoed earlier remarks and should not be linked to leadership change talk.
- Shivakumar later stated Rahul Gandhi gave no instruction on a change and only urged the government to continue its work, while Siddaramaiah called the speculation baseless.
- Congress MLA Ashok Pattan said Rahul asked both leaders to come to Delhi to resolve confusion; on Friday, Shivakumar reached Delhi for meetings with senior Congress leaders and described the agenda as routine and not for public discussion.
- The BJP attacked the state leadership for greeting Rahul in Mysuru instead of receiving German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Bengaluru, as Industries Minister M.B. Patil countered that Merz’s stops at Bosch and IISc were a private, pre-scheduled visit handled by officials.