BJP state general secretary CT Ravi slams Barkha Dutt for an old tweet on Siddaramaiah
Says Siddaramaiah’s 'insult' unacceptable
Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP General Secretary and Chikkamagaluru MLA CT Ravi on Thursday slammed prominent journalist Barkha Dutt for calling former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah a ‘son of cattle grazer’ in a tweet dated May 10, 2018, days ahead of the Karnataka assembly election last year.
Barkha Dutt had then shared her article published in ‘Washington Post’ and had questioned if Siddaramaiah, a son of cattle grazer would be able to stop ‘Modi wave’ in the southern state. The article mainly focused on Siddaramaiah’s rise in politics while also comparing the same with that of Narendra Modi.
CT Ravi however on Thursday retweeted the tweet of Barkha Dutt about the post and called it abusive journalism.
Ravi also praised Siddaramaiah in the tweet and added that the former CM is a leader on his own strength and has grown from the roots. He is a self-made man of the Masses. He also added that reducing siddaramaiah to ‘son of a cattle grazer was not acceptable’.
'This kind of abusive journalism against my fellow Kannadiga is not acceptable" he added in the tweet.
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KSRTC bus and auto rickshaw collide in Puttur, one dead
Puttur: In a tragic incident late Saturday night, an auto rickshaw returning from Madikeri to Puttur, after completing Lok Sabha election duties, collided with a KSRTC bus near Mukrampadi on the Mani Mysore National Highway. The collision claimed the life of the auto-rickshaw driver, identified as Jaison (30).
The collision occurred around 2 am when the bus heading towards Puttur collided with the rickshaw travelling in the opposite direction. The impact was severe, resulting in the complete crushing of the rickshaw, with Jaison trapped inside.
Despite the efforts of the fire service, he succumbed to his injuries before being extracted from the wreckage.
