{
  "id": 8974844,
  "title": "Karnataka Congress Rift Deepens As H K Patil Threatens To Quit Over Gadag Drought Tag",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/karnataka-congress-rift-deepens-as-h-k-patil-threatens-to-quit-over",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T17:46:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/karnataka-congress-rift-deepens-as-h-k-patil-threatens-to-quit-over-gadag-drought-tag"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Bengaluru: The internal bickering within Karnataka Congress has come to the fore again during the drought, with former minister H K Patil, who missed the ministerial berth during the recent cabinet expansion, having threatened to resign if his home taluk of Gadag was not declared drought-hit by October 10. Interestingly, Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy, who is an ardent supporter of…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}