Shivakumar condemns BJP protest on Bengaluru stampede

Commenting on the Karnataka BJP unit staging a protest on Tuesday to condemn the June 4 stampede incident, which claimed 11 lives in Bengaluru, Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress President D.K. Shivakumar said the party was “carrying out politics over dead bodies”.

Speaking to the media after participating in the ‘Parisara Nadige (March for Environment)’ event, organised jointly by the Forest Department and the Karnataka Pollution



Control Board in Bengaluru, Shivakumar said, “The BJP is doing politics over dead bodies. Shall I give the list of dead bodies from their time? What all had happened then?”

“At no point does the Congress party want to carry out politics over dead bodies. It is a natural disaster, and we condemn it. Let them do it, because their political base has been destroyed, and they want to show their presence, hence they are protesting,” said the Dy CM.