{"id":300934,"date":"2018-07-31T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300934"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:08:45","slug":"karnataka-chief-minister-blames-media-for-separate-statehood-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-chief-minister-blames-media-for-separate-statehood-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Chief Minister blames Media for separate statehood protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300935 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kumaraswamy-tehelka-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Kumaraswamy-tehelka-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Kumaraswamy-tehelka-494x420.jpg 494w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Kumaraswamy-tehelka.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/>Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on July 31 blamed the media for fanning sentiments and the demand for a separate statehood for north Karnataka and even warned that media would be held responsible if anything went wrong in the statehood protests in future.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CM said, &#8220;You, the media, are adding fuel to fire for no reason. People (in North Karnataka) are not demanding a separate State. People are with the government. You (media) are creating it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumaraswamy&#8217;s statement comes in the backdrop of the statement by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA B Sriramulu, threatening to not only lead the agitation but intensify it if the government continued to neglect the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He strongly targeted media for misquoting his statements. He said, &#8220;I was responding to (BJP leader) Sreeramulu&#8217;s statement during the Budget Session. I had asked him, from where will he get grants after carving out a separate state of North Karnataka? Is it a big issue? Is it a big crime?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The issue has raised a storm following the Uttara Karnataka Pratyeka Rajya Horata Samiti, the announcement of a day-long bandh on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1422013694\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 2<\/span><\/span> in 13 districts of the region leading the demand for separate statehood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa has accused CM, and said, &#8220;Kumaraswamy is playing politics of divide and rule. Unfortunately, he is working only for 37 Janata Dal (Secular) (JD-S) MLA seats, not as Chief Minister of entire Karnataka. Kumaraswamy&#8217;s injustice to different parts of Karnataka and especially north Karnataka has created agitation.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While blaming the media for flaring up the demand for statehood Kumaraswamy said, &#8220;It is a media creation. Actually, there is nothing happening of that sort. The people there are not making any such demand. They are with the government.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on July 31 blamed the media for fanning sentiments and the demand for a separate statehood for north Karnataka and even warned that media would be held responsible if anything went wrong in the statehood protests in future. CM said, &#8220;You, the media, are adding fuel to fire for no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":300935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1552,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300936,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300934\/revisions\/300936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}