Finding fault with “Siddaramothsava”, the celebration planned for former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s 75 th birthday, former Minister and BJP MLC A.H. Vishwanath on Monday said the Congress leaders shouuld instead celebrate the “festival of Congress”.
Speaking to reporters at K.R. Hospital, where he handed over an ambulance that had been gifted to him on the occasion of his birthday, Mr. Vishwanath referred to the praises showered on Mr. Siddaramaiah during the release of a book on the former Chief Minister’s administration in Mysuru on Saturday and lamented that there was nobody who was commending the Congress party at the function.
All the participants of the programme were only eulogising Mr Siddaramaiah, he said while adding that Mr. Siddaramaiah too failed to mention the Congress party’s name. “Instead of Siddaramothsava, they should celebrate the festival of Congress. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and former Chief D. Devaraj Urs should be remembered”, he said.
