Siddaramaiah hits back at Yeddyurappa for Congress dynasty barb
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday lashed out at BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa for calling Congress a party of dynastic politics as he questioned the credentials of the saffron party to make the attack.
He questioned BJP’s “moral grounds” for calling Congress a party of dynastic politics when Yeddyurappa’s son B Y Raghavendra had been elected to parliament and the assembly in the past.
“Who is Raghavendra? Whose son is he? Is he not Yeddyurappa’s son? Raghavendra was MP. What should we call it? Shouldn’t we call it dynastic politics? These people (BJP) are fooling around everyone, “Siddaramaiah told reporters in Mysuru.
He was referring to Yeddyurappa’s repeated charge during the campaign that the Congress was a party of dynastic politics.
Raghavendra was a Lok Sabha member and is now an MLA.
Yeddyurappa’s second son Vijayendra was also projected as a candidate from Varuna to take on Siddaramaiah’s son Yatindra in the May 12 assembly elections. But it was announced by Yeddyurappa that he would not contest.
