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There were heartwarming scenes in Bengaluru as visuals from a breakfast meeting showed Karnataka Chief Minister Siddarmaiah and his likely successor, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, sharing friendly greetings before interacting with other state ministers. The footage captures the leaders greeting each other, with Shivakumar touching his senior leader's feet and giving him a warm hug with a smile, before sitting down for discussions.
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00:00first visuals on our screens right now of the breakfast meeting let me just play that out i'm
00:04not sure if we have it on air so i'm just going to show it on our screens right now
00:07the first
00:08video that's coming of the hug and of dk shiv kumar and sidra maya right now those are the
00:15pictures i'm showing you the video right now on our screens this is the full video i'm going to
00:19play it once again for our viewers that's the hug right now on your screens and dk shiv kumar and
00:26sidra maya interacting seated next to each other i see parameshwara on the other side so the visuals
00:31are on our screens right now okay so that's dk shiv kumar and sidra maya seated ahead of the table
00:37it's almost like a conference room but with a bit of food with a bit of breakfast that they will
00:42enjoy there's a conversation you can see that in the video there's no audio unfortunately so we're
00:47not able to hear exactly what's being discussed but you can see that there is an intense conversation
00:51that's happening between all of the leaders it begins with the dk shiv kumar entering there
00:56giving sidra maya a hug and then all of them seated together for breakfast at the head of the table
01:02you've got sidra maya right next to him dk shiv kumar i also see g parmeshwara seated right next to
01:08sidra maya in this particular footage and right after that i can see all along all of the ministers who
01:14are seated there all in intense conversation in this footage that we've accessed on india today
01:21first images on your screens of the breakfast meat that's currently underway now we don't know
01:27just yet naga can you confirm for us whether sidra maya is announced to the ministers not yet not yet
01:32not yet he's been waiting for is exchanging pleasantries uh in any moment now a couple of
01:38minutes he'll be announcing it to the uh leaders is what i'm told i'll get a confirmation let me just
01:43make a call and then come back akshita then i'll give you sure we're going to let you go so
01:48we can
01:48give you that chance sagai is with me as well sagai raj is with us to get us those updates
01:53as well
01:53sagai first video on our screens and i think everyone's going to be talking about the body
01:58language of the two leaders what do you make of it sagai you see all the leaders there they're all
02:02in intense conversation run us through that video
02:08so you can see in the visuals that when chief chief minister was hugging dk shukumar there were
02:14sidra maya loyalists who are present inside the room it is basvaraj virady g parmeshwar legal advisor
02:19to chief minister uh pundana and even in the breakfast meeting you can also see uh home minister
02:26sitting to the left side left side of uh chief minister and he was a dark horse in this entire
02:32power tussle he always felt that he had a chance uh to be the chief minister between these two and
02:38uh apart from him there are also other ministers who are present in this particular breakfast meeting
02:43definitely they are not going to talk anything controversial they're not going to give any kind
02:47of suggestion to uh sidrama in this open uh dining hall probably once everything gets over everybody
02:54will accompany with the chief minister head to look when he's standing the resignation whatever the
02:59suggestion whatever uh the advice was supposed to be given by all his loyalists mlas and minister
03:05was done yesterday so we need to wait and watch whether there will be any kind of uh media briefing
03:10remember rakshita when we were reporting in the month of november after the breakfast meeting uh we
03:15had a media briefing at the same place where they're having breakfast now we had a media briefing where
03:20uh they have shook hands together they held hands together and showed that they are united there was no
03:25differences between them and they are they want to work together and similarly even today they are
03:31hugging each other and they are he took the blessings of achievement sidramaya a message that they want
03:37to convey as nagarjun was pointing out see i'm not the person i'm just fighting for my share of power
03:42and i'm asking my due uh my right to the high command and the high command have to take a
03:48decision and
03:49uh it's if it is not sidrama anybody else he could have been there he would have done the same
03:54thing and
03:54now they want to send across a message that all is going well and it is a smooth transition the
04:00state
04:00of karnataka
04:04okay smooth transition indeed those are the first pictures on our screens right now of the meeting but
04:10naga is also with us naga just quickly you just spoken to your sources no communication yet the
04:15meeting has uh started but no communication has been given i spoke to one person who's sitting inside the
04:20meeting breakfast meeting they're picking up calls inside yeah and that i can't give you details as
04:27to why is he picking up and what is he doing but he did pick up uh he said the
04:31meeting has begun but
04:33the communication has not been given that he's officially resigning yet they're still exchanging
04:37pleasantries as to uh what exactly happened over the last two days and uh any moment now he'll be
04:42giving out the news to the cabinet okay so over a cup of hot piping filter coffee is when perhaps
04:47the
04:48announcement will be made by sidramaya by now i'm sure all the ministers are seeing it coming but it
04:53will still be an incredibly emotional difficult and a moment that they'll never forget when sidramaya
04:59announces that he's stepping down as chief minister and then it's over to dk shivkumar who seated right
05:05next to sidramaya but right now let's be very clear the spotlight is firmly on sidramaya which is why
05:12even dk shivkumar the moment he entered ensured that he did in fact immediately seek the blessings
05:17of sidramaya hugged it out with sidramaya to show there's no bad blood whatsoever it was reciprocated
05:22you know this wasn't one way that you had uh just one-sided where dk shivkumar came and saw the
05:27blessings of sidramaya that hug you can see the images was extremely warm between both the leaders
05:33sidramaya's all smiles as expected not really letting his emotions show right now in any of the
05:39pictures i'll take you back to sir uh monday when the meeting originated happened in delhi
05:43everyone the moment casey venu kopal emerged from there with dk shivkumar and sidramaya on either
05:49side assumed that it's great news for sidramaya why because he came on beaming and so everyone
05:55said that look it looks like sidramaya is very happy something must have gone very well in that meeting
06:00only for about few moments later that news break coming in on india today that sidramaya has actually
06:04been asked to step down so never go by really the emotions all these politicians faces especially
06:09someone like sidramaya who's a veteran politician and so knows exactly how to mask his emotions show
06:15exactly what he wants the media what he wants the people to see but after this now we are hearing
06:21there will be a press conference followed by which there will be a visit to log bhavan with all of
06:27the
06:27ministers who are seated inside right now all of them will accompany sidramaya to log bhavan and that's
06:34messaging by itself saying this is the respect that we have for a leader of his stature it's great to
06:40see that the congress hasn't broken apart just because of a leadership change instead it's kind
06:45of brought them all together with a fresh show of unity almost as if they want to prove a point
06:50that
06:51nothing is going to disrupt this government nothing is going to disrupt this party and so that's why i
06:56again repeat that the high command has been able to handle this particular situation with great
07:01progress they've taken the right call at the right time so that no matter what there's no sort of
07:07rebellion of factionalism of course we'll have to wait and see nobody's giving an immediate clean
07:12shit it depends also what the cabinet will look like under a dk shivkumar maybe i'm jumping the gun
07:17to go ahead and say that you know we're going to look at the cabinet of dk shivkumar but it
07:21is a given
07:22now which sidramaya said to announce that he's resigning no twist can change things delay yes because we
07:27don't know about the governor but nothing will change once sidramaya has given his word there's
07:31no way he'll go back on it so we'll wait we'll wait and see exactly what happens in that meeting
07:37we've got our eyes ears on the ground right now to give you a sense of what's happening so the
07:43first
07:43picture is on our screens here on india today of the breakfast meeting first video on your screens
07:49and that's why you can trust us to give you a sense of what's really happening inside as well
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