Sunday, September 30, 2018

After garlanding Sir MV’s statue, K’taka minister asks whose it is

Chikkaballapura:30.09.2018

Karnataka forests minister R Shankar garlanded the statue of Bharat Ratna awardee Sir M Visvesvaraya on Friday, without knowing who the statue represented.

Shankar was at Chikkaballapura for a review meeting and prior to it, he inspected the Visvesvaraya Institute of Advanced Technology, work for which had started during the BJP government’s tenure. While returning, he visited Muddenahalli, Visvesvaraya birthplace, and on request from residents, garlanded the newly-erected statue.

When mediapersons asked Shankar about his engagements in the district, he listed them but seemed confused about the statue he had just garlanded. He turned to his personal staff who told him it was Visvesvaraya’s.

Even as the video clip of him asking staff went viral, forest department officials sought to play it down.

They claimed the minister was not ignorant about Sir MV but was trying to confirm who had sponsored the statue. Range forest officer, Chikkaballapura Vikram told STOI, “Shankar was in the district to review programmes and following the request of local people visited the samadhi of Visvesvaraya.” TNN

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