Siddaramaiah Statue Installed, Removed in Kalaburagi Ahead of Shivakumar Visit
City officials removed the nine-foot statue after it was installed without permission and before D K Shivakumar’s district visit, deepening Congress factional tensions.
- On Thursday, Kalaburagi City Corporation officials removed a nine-foot statue of former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah that supporters had installed overnight without permission.
- The unauthorized installation exposed simmering factional tensions within the Karnataka Congress since Shivakumar took over as Chief Minister in June, with disagreements over ministerial inductions fueling friction.
- Supporters placed the statue near a junction previously named Siddaramaiah Circle, located on the route to Ganagapur in Afzalpur taluk that Shivakumar was scheduled to traverse on Thursday.
- Tensions persist between Shivakumar and Hariprasad, appointed Karnataka Congress chief to prevent power concentration, while State BJP president B Y Vijayendra described the party as a "divided house."
- Party leaders acknowledge that factionalism complicates the emergence of clear successors for the 2028 race, while competition over the AHINDA bloc shapes Siddaramaiah's declining but still significant influence.
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Siddaramaiah statue installed, removed in Kalaburagi ahead of Shivakumar visit
A nine foot statue of former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah was removed by the Kalaburagi City Corporation on Thursday morning after his supporters installed it without permission at High Court Circle, as chief minister D K Shivakumar was in the city for Kalyana Karnataka Utsav celebrations.
Hours before CM DK Shivakumar's visit, a 9-foot Siddaramaiah statue appears in Kalaburagi, then quietly disappears
Municipal authorities removed a nine-foot statue of Siddaramaiah near a Kalaburagi intersection. This action occurred just before the Kalyana Karnataka Utsava commenced on Thursday. Siddaramaiah's fans had installed the unauthorized statue the previous day. The removal took place in the presence of police officers. Chief Minister DK Shivakumar inaugurated the Utsava on the same day.
Siddaramaiah's statue installed, removed in Kalaburagi
Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Sep 17 (PTI) Ahead of the Kalyana Karnataka Utsava, the municipal authorities removed a nine-foot tall statue of former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah installed near the High Court road intersection in the district headquarter town of Kalaburagi, sources said on Thursday. According to sources, Siddaramaiah’s fans had installed the statue on Wednesday in the […]
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Mangaluru (Karnataka), Sept 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Minister for Minor Irrigation, Ajay Singh, on Friday said the removal of a nine-foot statue of former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Kalaburagi was carried out as the statue had... - Social News XYZ
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