{"id":33220,"date":"2026-05-30T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/30\/karnatakas-d-k-shivakumar-faces-a-challenging-path-as-new-chief-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:13:57","slug":"karnatakas-d-k-shivakumar-faces-a-challenging-path-as-new-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/30\/karnatakas-d-k-shivakumar-faces-a-challenging-path-as-new-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka&#8217;s D.K. Shivakumar Faces a Challenging Path as New Chief Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>D.K. Shivakumar is about to take on the role of chief minister of Karnataka after a three-year wait, marking a significant milestone in his political journey. His story is quite remarkable, starting with a setback in 1985 when he was only 23. In that election, he lost to the influential Janata Dal leader, H.D. Deve Gowda, who later became the prime minister. However, since that defeat, Shivakumar has been on a winning streak, securing eight consecutive terms as an MLA over the last four decades. Now, his persistence and dedication have led him to the highest political position in the state.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.K. Shivakumar is about to take on the role of chief minister of Karnataka after a three-year wait, marking a significant milestone in his political journey. His story is quite remarkable, starting with a setback in 1985 when he was only 23. In that election, he lost to the influential Janata Dal leader, H.D. Deve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[43560,12144,43565,43564,43561,43562,43563,8247,3566,43566,3614,43556,43558,43559,43557,43555,12154],"class_list":["post-33220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-india-news","tag-2028-karnataka-assembly-elections","tag-dk-shivakumar","tag-dk-shivakumar-assets","tag-dk-shivakumar-business","tag-dk-shivakumar-caste","tag-dk-shivakumar-family","tag-dk-shivakumar-net-worth","tag-karnataka-chief-minister","tag-karnataka-politics","tag-lingayat","tag-siddaramaiah","tag-siddaramaiah-future","tag-siddaramaiah-new-party","tag-siddaramaiah-party","tag-siddaramaiah-political-future","tag-siddaramaiah-resignation","tag-vokkaliga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}