'Will Reply Tomorrow': Karnataka MLC BK Hariprasad On Congress's Show-Cause Notice Over Digs At Siddaramaiah

In the show cause notice, the Congress leader was asked to explain his conduct within 10 days.

Karnataka Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar with party leader B.K. Hariprasad

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Congress MLC and senior leader B K Hariprasad on Wednesday said that he is preparing his answers for the show cause notice issued to him by Congress' Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) over his remarks against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and will send his reply by tomorrow (September 14).

In the show cause notice, the Congress leader was asked to explain his conduct within 10 days.

Reacting to the notice, he told PTI, "All India Congress Disciplinary Action Committee has sent me a letter asking some questions, so I am preparing my answers. By tomorrow, I will reply to the notice."

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Earlier on September 9, Hariprasad in a veiled attack against Siddaramaiah had said that some people wearing a Hublot watch and khaki shorts underneath their panche (dhoti) cannot claim to be a Samajwadi (socialist), and one cannot become Devraj Urs (former CM known for social reforms) by sitting in his car.

Though he had not taken any names during his speech, it was quite apparent that the comments were directed at Siddaramaiah.

Siddaramaiah after garlanding Urs’ statue on the Vidhana Soudha premises had taken a small ride in his famed black Mercedes Benz car, on his 108th birth anniversary last month.

Hariprasad had also expressed his displeasure over a Dalit leader like G Parameshwara (now Home Minister) not being considered by the Congress for the Chief Minister's post and ST leader like Satish Jarkiholi for Deputy Chief Minister's post.

"Dalit leader G. Parameshwar served for the longest period as the state President of the Congress party. He deserved to become the Chief Minister. In spite of making him Chief Minister, he was demoted from the post of DyCM to a minister. A Dalit should have been chosen for the post of Deputy Chief Minister. Minister Satish Jarkiholi should have been made the Deputy Chief Minister," he had said while speaking at a 'convention of like-minded most backward classes' like -- Ediga, Billava, Namdhari and Deevara among others.

"If one thinks that he has formed the government and decides to act as per his whims and fancies, the people will take their calls," he had added.