Days after a stampede near Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium killed 11 people, the Congress high command has summoned Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar to Delhi.
Sources with the Congress party told CNN-News18 that Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar were asked to meet Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday morning.
DK Shivakumar is already in the national capital for a government program, and is likely to extend his stay to meet Gandhi.
The Chief Minister, meanwhile, is likely to fly to Delhi on Tuesday morning.
On Sunday, Siddaramaiah had expressed grief over the stampede, saying the incident should not have happened.
He also clarified that he “didn’t have any connection with the cricket stadium”.
Addressing reporters in Mysuru on Sunday, Siddaramaiah said, “This incident shouldn’t have happened, it happened at the Cricket stadium. I don’t have any connection with the cricket stadium.”
Asked about the allegation that the then Bengaluru Police commissioner B Dayananda was made a scapegoat, he said, the Commissioner alone has not been suspended, five officers have been suspended, and the intelligence chief has been changed.
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“My political secretary, K Govindara,j has been removed. We have taken a series of actions, not the police commissioner alone,” he added.
The stampede happened on June 4 in front of the Chinnaswamy Stadium, where a large number of people thronged to participate in the RCB team’s IPL victory celebrations.
