Newly appointed state Bengaluru development minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Tuesday left for New Delhi after failing to secure structural changes extending the department’s jurisdiction to include the Bengaluru Development Authority and the Bengaluru Metropolitan Region Development Authority, party insiders familiar with the matter said. Krishna Byre Gowda Gowda is expected to meet Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha Lop Gandhi, and senior leaders KC Venugopal and state-in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala to press his case. The development comes days after senior minister Ramalinga Reddy was persuaded to withdraw his resignation over a disagreement on portfolio-allocation. Party leaders said Byre Gowda, who was yet to formally assume charge of the department, has been pressing for the two civic agencies to be brought under the department’s control, arguing that the portfolio would have little practical authority without oversight of the agencies that shape much of Bengaluru’s urban planning and development. “The issue is not merely about a portfolio. It is about where authority over Bengaluru actually rests,” a leader in the know said. Leaders involved in the …