Siddu, DK will take care of Bengaluru, mind your own business, Pai tells Congress in Kerala
TV Mohandas Pai on Sunday lashed out at Kerala unit of the Congress party for seeking to malign Bengaluru while trying to attack MoS (MeitY) Rajeev Chandrasekhar for leading an agitation against a steel-bridge project during the previous Congress regime in Karnataka and having it scuttled.
Chandrasekhar, a resident of Bengaluru and a Malayali by birth, is contesting on BJP ticket in Thiruvananthapuram against the Congress party’s Shashi Tharoor.
“Congress in Kerala attacking Congress in Karnataka! Keep going!” Pai posted on X in response to a barrage of posts by the Kerala unit. The former Infosys director asked the party’s Kerala unit to “mind its own business, save a broken Kerala where young people are migrating to Karnataka in large nos!”
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Dy CM DK Shivakumar, he added, “know how to improve our lives here.”
The Congress in Kerala on Sunday sought to paint Bengaluru poorly while seeking to attack Chandrasekhar for launching a campaign to scuttle a steel bridge project the previous Congress regime had proposed to ease congestion on the airport road. “Have you heard about 374 people missing their flight on a single day in Bengaluru and many had to walk to the airport? A 7-KM drive on Airport Road from Hebbal to MG Road takes between 45 mins to 1 hr. Many have missed their flights stuck in mad traffic and many would have died in ambulances. Who is responsible for this? Let's find out,” the party posted on X, targeting the MoS and his nonprofit Namma Bengaluru Foundation.
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