Mandya: Terming Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s act of insulting Mandya Superintendent of Police C H Sudhir Kumar Reddy in full public view as ‘deplorable’, the state BJP said the incident has brought to fore the arrogance of Siddaramaiah.
Apparently the chief minister had pulled up the SP during a programme in Malavalli on Thursday for not stopping the BJP activists from waving black flags at him for non-waiver of farm loans.
“The BJP is of the view that public humiliation of the SP, who is head of the police force in his district, is totally deplorable. The chief minister has pushed the SP to a situation from where he would find it extremely difficult to command the respect of his juniors as well as the public,” BJP state spokesperson and MLA S Suresh Kumar stated.
Kumar said that humiliation of government officials has become common in the Siddaramaiah regime.
He has listed certain incidents: Udupi Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis was recently threatened for taking on the sand mafia; police constable Prakash was suspended for initiating action against eve-teasers at Malpe in Udupi; former DySP Anupama Shenoy got “hounded” for taking on the liquor lobby and IAS officer C Shikha, who was deputy commissioner of Mysuru, was abused by the chief minister’s close associate Marigowda. In all these incidents, the government remained a mute spectator, Kumar stated.