Bengaluru: A day after former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has called Chief Minister Siddaramaiah “neecha” for not allowing him to speak at the Mahamasthakabhisheka, the Chief Minister responded that he would accept this name as a medal of honour and not an insult.
Without naming anybody, the chief minister has tweeted: “When you fight for the rights of the Dalits, the Backward Classes & the Minorities, powerful people will be upset and call you names. When you refuse to play the second fiddle they will abuse you. I take these names as Medals of Honour & not as insults.”
In another tweet in Kannada, Siddaramaiah said culture is reflected in one’s speech and there is no distinction between senior-junior in this.
