No message from Rahul Gandhi as reported in media, he asked us to continue good work: Shivakumar

14 Jan 2026 Evaluate

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress president D K Shivakumar clarified that there is no message from Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi, as being reported in the media. He said Gandhi has only asked the state government to continue the good work.

Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, the state Congress President lashed out at speculations regarding his social media post which read ‘efforts may fail, but prayers won't’, linking it with his brief conversation with Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday evening.

D K Shivakumar maintained that the interaction was strictly professional and procedural. ‘I am the state president and he is a top national leader. Meeting him and following protocol isn't something that should be debated in public,’ he said, accusing TV channels of ‘creating confusion’ by quoting off-the-record sources.

Deputy CM said, ‘There are no such discussions (CM change). Rahul Gandhi has asked us to continue the good work, and we will work accordingly’. Shivakumar further said that they have updated him about their programmes planned regarding MGNREGA (Save MGNREGA campaign) and also briefed him on BJP's politics in the state.

Asked whether anything was discussed with Rahul Gandhi that cannot be shared on record with the media, Shivakumar said, ‘there is no such thing with me, always it is on-record with me.’ He further said that he will be going to New Delhi on January 1. While his visit to the national capital is likely to take part in a preparatory meeting in connection with the Assembly elections in Assam, for which he has been appointed as a senior observer by the Congress.

The meeting took place on Tuesday evening at Mysuru’s Mandakalli Airport while Gandhi was in transit from Tamil Nadu to New Delhi. Gandhi had brief conversations with Siddaramaiaah and Shivakumar both separately and together.

These developments follow speculation about a change in the state’s Chief Minister, after the Congress government reached the halfway mark of its five-year term on November 20.


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