Will speak to person who should be spoken to: Shivakumar on Yathindra’s statement
Bengaluru (PTI): With talks of leadership change in Karnataka emerging, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Friday said he will speak to the person who should be spoken to.
He was commenting on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son Yathindra Siddaramaiah’s statement that state Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi is a leader with progressive ideological thinking similar to his father.
"I am not going to speak now, but I will speak to whomever it is that should be spoken to," Shivakumar told reporters here.
He was replying to a query by a reporter who sought to know why notice was not served to Yathindra, who was speaking about the change of guard.
Addressing a gathering at Chikkodi in Belagavi district on Wednesday, Congress MLC Yathindra said, "He (Siddaramaiah) is at the fag end of his political life. At such a time, a leader is needed to guide and lead those who have progressive thinking, ideologically."
Minister Satish Jarkiholi is a leader with similar progressive ideological thinking, he said.
Recently, two Congress MLAs H D Ranganath and H A Iqbal Hussain were served notices for their statement that Shivakumar should become the next chief minister of the state.
Amid talks of leadership change, Yathindra’s statement led to speculation on whether he was speaking about the successor to his father.
Siddaramaiah has constantly reiterated that he will complete a full five-year term.
There was stiff competition between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the chief minister's post after the declaration of Assembly election results in May 2023, and the Congress had managed to convince the latter and made him the Deputy CM.
There were some reports at the time that a compromise had been reached based on a "rotational chief minister formula," according to which Shivakumar will become CM after two-and-a-half y
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
