The felicitation occasion for the IPL-winning Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the grand steps of the Vidhana Soudha that preceded the deadly Chinnaswamy stadium stampede was organised by the workforce and the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation, not the state authorities, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated on Wednesday.
Siddaramaiah additionally stated he had invited Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot for the felicitation of the Indian Premier League workforce, amid reviews that the governor had arrived on his personal for the occasion.
“It’s not right,” the chief minister stated, dismissing the reviews. “(Former) political secretary (to the CM), Ok Govindaraju rang up Raj Bhavan and gave it to me. I instructed the governor that I used to be going and also you come too,” he stated whereas talking to reporters at Gauribidanur in Chikkaballapur district.
To a query, he stated he was not conscious if anybody else had invited the governor.
The chief minister stated the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation and RCB organised the Vidhana Soudha occasion on June 4. “They requested me at 11.29 am (to carry the occasion) and I cleared it. The chief secretary had additionally referred to as and I okayed it,” he stated.
After the felicitation on the Vidhana Soudha, an occasion was organised on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Eleven folks misplaced their lives within the stampede whereas making an attempt to enter the stadium by way of one in every of its gates, main to an enormous uproar, with Opposition events calling for the resignation of Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Growth Minister D Ok Shivakumar, and Residence Minister G Parameshwara.