NEW DELHI: Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar and his spouse Usha Shivakumar provided prayers at Mandya’s Bhoo Varaha Swamy temple on Saturday, simply hours after a breakfast assembly with chief minister Siddaramaiah amid an influence tussle between the 2 leaders.“Once I was in Tihar Jail, my mother-in-law and father-in-law got here to this temple 4 instances,” Shivakumar advised reporters, referring to his September 2019 arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering case — which the Supreme Courtroom finally quashed in March 2024.The Congress chief, who additionally heads the social gathering’s state unit, claimed {that a} “good friend from one other social gathering” had been urging him to go to the temple for the previous two years.Shivakumar added that the go to was scheduled solely this morning.“Once I got here right here, I felt a way of glory. I requested the priest if I ought to deliver something, and he mentioned it was sufficient to come back for darshan. I don’t know if he carried out a homa (sacred fireplace ritual) to safe a ‘excessive place’ for me. All of the elders and deities are me with love,” the deputy CM remarked.Earlier, after his breakfast assembly with Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar had described the management talks as “productive.”The chief minister had invited his deputy on the behest of the Congress excessive command.The facility tussle between the 2 dates again to an alleged promise made to Shivakumar after the Congress’ sweeping victory over the BJP within the Karnataka meeting elections in Might 2023. The social gathering management had chosen the veteran Siddaramaiah as chief minister, appointed Shivakumar his deputy, and reportedly assured a switch of energy after 2.5 years for the rest of the federal government’s five-year time period.The Siddaramaiah camp — and the chief minister himself — has repeatedly maintained that he’ll full his full tenure.