BENGALURU: Former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday criticised Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar over the latter’s remarks on him.
Earlier, Shivakumar had said that Kumaraswamy became the CM only because the Congress party fought for freedom. In the reply to this remark, Kumaraswamy lashed out at the KPCC president through a series of tweets.
He said, “Shivakumar’s statement is a sign of immaturity and extremely childish. I became the chief minister because of the freedom brought by the father of the nation and the Constitution given by Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar,” he added.
Later, in a tweet, he said that D K Shivakumar should pay attention to those in the party who are taking away his liberty. He also questioned Congress about the essence of the ‘Freedom Walk’ which is likely to be performed on Independence Day from the Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station to National College Grounds.
“Now you are going to walk on Independence Day. Can you explain a little about whose freedom? Will you answer to the anti-freedom acts carried out by Congress so far,” he tweeted.
“Dr B R Ambedkar was the minister in the first cabinet of the country, which gave us the Constitution and the Congress leaders who stopped such a gentleman from coming back to the Parliament and ruthlessly suppressed the voice of the downtrodden of India are today singing the hymn of Independence,” he added. (ANI)