Café Coffee Day founder's son Amartya gets engaged to Cong leader DK Shivakumar's daughter

The lockdown may have dampened the spirit of revelry that is seen in the wedding season. But this couple decided to make things official.

Amartya Hegde, the son of Café Coffee Day founder the late VG Siddhartha, on Thursday got engaged to Aishwarya Shivakumar, the daughter of Congress troubleshooter D K Shivakumar, at a ceremony in Bengaluru.

An intimate affair, the ceremony was attended only by family and close friends and some political bigwigs. Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa turned up to bless the couple. Setting political differences aside, the senior BJP leader was seen in conversation with Shivakumar who also happens to be the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief.


And that's not the only political connection in this high-profile match. Amartya's mother, Malavika Krishnan, is the daughter of SM Krishna who spent most of his political life in the Congress before switching camps to the BJP in March 2017. Krishna has served as the Karnataka CM for a decade, and was also the Lok Sabha Speaker during the UPA tenure.

The couple was twinning in pink ensembles for their special day. The bride's father opted for a blue silk kurta, and her mother Usha was clad in an orange and green saree.

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The groom's mother Malavika Krishnan, Director of Coffee Day Enterprises, opted for an off-white silk saree.


Local media reported that the couple will tie the knot in February next year.

While Amarthya looks at the Cafe Coffee Day business, Aishwarya works with the Global Academy of Technology, an engineering college run by her father.

VG Siddhartha had died by suicide on July 31, 2019, and his death had made headlines and drawing attention to the state of financial affairs in the group.