Amid Bengaluru stampede row, Siddaramaiah & DK Shivakumar summoned to Delhi | India News

DCM Shivakumar and CM Siddaramaiah

BENGALURU: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar have been summoned to Delhi for a damage-control assembly Tuesday with Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi as continued outrage over the June 4 Bengaluru stampede that killed 11 RCB followers places Congress – accused of enjoying pass-the-buck – on a sticky wicket.A bureaucrat within the CMO stated Siddaramaiah, who maintains that the state govt did not put a foot unsuitable, obtained what he described as “a sudden call” from the Congress brass. He and Shivakumar have been requested to put together an in depth briefing of the administration’s response to the stampede exterior Chinnaswamy Stadium forward of IPL-winning RCB’s victory parade, the official stated. Congress’s urgency to agency up a method to counter the storm comes a day after the opposition doubled down on its demand for political accountability, together with a three-day particular legislative session to focus on what led to the stampede.Sources stated AICC’s Karnataka minder, Randeep Singh Surjewala, will probably be with Rahul on the scheduled 11am assembly with Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. The latter was within the nationwide capital Monday for an official engagement, however returned to Bengaluru late night. He will probably be again in Delhi in time for the assembly with the excessive command, the sources stated. For now, the three distinct Congress camps in Karnataka led by Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar and state dwelling minister G Parameshwar are talking in a single voice as a credibility disaster stares the social gathering within the face. The state govt has been accused of creating police the scapegoats after 5 senior cops, together with the Bengaluru’s former metropolis police commissioner B Dayananda, have been suspended the night after the stampede.