India, Jan. 27 -- The ongoing feud within the Congress over the chief minister's chair in Karnataka showed up directly in Bengaluru on Tuesday, as CM Siddaramaiah lost his cool when some young wing members started raising slogans in favour of his deputy and intra-party rival DK Shivakumar during a marquee rally of the party.

Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, besides the party's national general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, state ministers, MPs and legislators, took part in the protest condemning the BJP-led Centre for replacing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with a new scheme, Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajivika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G).

But the rally saw internal wrangling just as ...