Visibly irritated, Siddaramaiah summoned police officer to the stage and made a slapping gesture after BJP workers disrupted his speech, prompting Congress leaders to intervene and calm the situation.
Published Apr 28, 2025 | 8:04 PM ⚊ Updated Apr 28, 2025 | 8:04 PM
CM Siddaramaiah gestures angrily at police official after BJP workers disrupt speech in Belagavi
Synopsis: At a massive Congress protest in Belagavi, BJP women workers disrupted Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s speech by raising slogans in black attire. An angry Siddaramaiah summoned a police official on stage, making a slapping gesture at him. Congress leaders intervened to calm the situation. BJP protesters were detained, and Siddaramaiah resumed his speech, vowing to confront BJP-RSS threats
A group of BJP women workers interrupted Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s speech at a massive protest held in Belagavi on Monday, 28 April, afternoon by AICC. The women workers had worn black clothes as a symbol of protest and started raising slogans against the Congress government.
Siddaramaiah appeared visibly irritated and angry. Congress leaders, including MP Randeep Singh Surjewala, Ministers M B Patil, and H K Patil, attempted to calm him down. However, Siddaramaiah, upset by the BJP workers’ disruption, summoned the police officer on duty to the stage and made a slapping gesture towards him. Such was the agitation that the officer flinched. The leaders quickly intervened to defuse the situation.
Addressing the crowd, Siddaramaiah asked, “Who is this SP? What have you been doing? Who are all these people shouting slogans?” The official reprimanded by Siddaramaiah was later identified as a police officer on duty.
Meanwhile, police detained the BJP women workers who had disrupted the event and took them to the station. Siddaramaiah then resumed his speech, declaring, “We will not bow down to the BJP-RSS’s big threats. I have the power to confront you all publicly. Our workers also have the strength to resist.”
He asked the BJP workers, “Show people what else you have done for the last ten years except continuously increasing prices, making the lives of citizens miserable and creating divisions in the Indian society and acting as traitors. When Indians were fighting against the British and sacrificing their lives, what did you, the Sangh Parivar, dare to say or do? Why didn’t you come to the fight? What did you do then? You have not hoisted the Indian flag over the RSS office for 52 years since India gained independence. Aren’t you ashamed of this too?”
Siddaramaiah also highlighted the lapse of security measures by the Union Government in the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. “The other day, innocent Indians in Kashmir and three innocent people from Karnataka were brutally murdered by the terrorists. Isn’t this a security lapse of the central government? Shouldn’t we Indians question the failure to protect Indians? If questioned, you disrupt our programme.”
Criticising BJP led Central Government for imposing low tax on rich people and more on poor, Siddaramaiah said, “When Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister, the rich capitalists paid 32 percent tax. After Modi came, you reduced the tax and now they pay 25 percent only. You increased the tax for the poor and middle class. Shouldn’t you question the BJP’s rule against the poor and the middle class?”
He also said that unlike the central government, state government is transferring Rs 4 completely to the farmers accounts after increasing the price of milk. “Not a single rupee of this goes to the government. It is transferred completely to the farmers account. Even if we increase it by Rs 4, the price of milk is lower in Karnataka. Bus fares, water fares and electricity rates are much lower in Karnataka than in neighboring states. BJP has increased the prices of rice, oil, gold, silver, fertilizer, pulses, diesel, petrol and LPG. When will stop lying to people?”
BY Vijayendra, state BJP President, criticised CM Siddaramaiah and called his act as hooliganism. He took to his X page and wrote, “Patriotic women have expressed their protest against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today at the Congress conference in Belagavi by raising slogans against him for speaking in sympathy with Pakistan and creating a rift between the unity of India. Disturbed by this, the Chief Minister addressed the Additional District Superintendent of Police in uniform in a single sentence, shouted in frustration and raised his hand, which is a hooligan behavior that has damaged the dignity of the Chief Minister’s position.”
He continued, “Siddaramaiah, who is floating in the intoxication of power, has been going to extremes in recent days. A few months ago, Siddaramaiah had exposed his uncultured behavior by simply insulting an efficient police official in a meeting. His behavior is not today or yesterday, the incident of showing anger by hugging a woman in his own constituency is still fresh. Similarly, the media described the attack on the late M. Mahadev of Nanjangud, a senior politician of Mysore region, as a ‘stab-and-punch’ case.”
Vijayendra also wrote, “Those who sit in the position of Chief Minister should be mature in their experience, behavior, and words, but in the case of Siddaramaiah, it is the other way around, day by day he is losing control of his tongue. Out of frustration, he is displaying arrogance and power over the people and officials. This is a very unfortunate and condemnable behavior. The post of Chief Minister of Karnataka has a great background, many great people who have sat in that position have taken the dignity of the post of Chief Minister to the highest level, have made a mark on the world stage.”
CM @siddaramaiah’s public outburst against senior police officer comes as no surprise – after all, even the sacred Doors of Vidhana Soudha, the Temple of Democracy, have previously borne the brunt of his anger.
Its apparent now that our CM is deep under the influence of Pakistan… pic.twitter.com/KWRZZPCodo
— Vijayendra Yediyurappa (@BYVijayendra) April 28, 2025
(Edited by Ananya Rao)
