Yeddi’s sympathy for Kumara!
Sympathy plays vital role in Indian politics. It was sympathy wave that helped political parties getting clear-cut majority in the past. With the alleged betrayal by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, BJP wants to sail through the sympathy wave but the party workers are afraid that the wave may flow towards Kumaraswamy.
Reason: Saturday night, BJP leader B S Yediyurappa told media that he is feeling pity for Kumaraswamy because his career would be ruined for not keeping his words.

As soon as the press conference was over, a party worker came close to ‘Yeddi’ (as people fondly call him) and said, “Sir, please don’t repeat elsewhere that you are feeling pity for Kumaraswamy. If voters too start feeling pity for him, Kumara would come back to power,” the worker apprised him.

G Manjusainath Gowda’s call costs him berth
JD(S) leader H S Mahadev Prasad could not get a berth in the H D Kumaraswamy cabinet when it was first expanded after the JD(S)-BJP coalition set up came into being twenty months ago. Do you know why?
Mr Kumaraswamy has asked Mr Prasad to join him when he was taking his MLAs to Raj Bhavan. The then party president N Thippanna had given clear instructions to all confidants of Kumaraswamy to switch off their cell phones.

The instruction was given to avoid call from the party’s national president H D Deve Gowda who was not in favour of JD(S) joining hands with the BJP.

However  Prasad had forgotten to follow the instruction.

He received a call from Deve Gowda when he was on his way to Bangalore from his constituency Gundlupet.

Mr Gowda enquired Mr Prasad where he was going. Politely he said he was going to Raj Bhavan to show solidarity with Kumaraswamy. Mr Gowda got angry and asked him to rush to his residency in Padmanabha Nagar.
He obeyed him and went to Deve Gowda’s house. As a result he could not find place in Kumaraswamy’s ministry.
He had to wait almost a year to get ministership in the cabinet.

A party leader told press persons the truth behind Mr Prasad losing cabinet berth on Sunday at Krishna, chief minister’s official residence.

Satish Shile Mediamen at receiving end
Whenever the big dad of Karnataka politics H D Deve Gowda becomes upset, it is first the media that incurs his wrath.

When the BJP countered the JD(S)’ plans to not to hand over the baton, by submitting resignation letters of all ministers en masse on Oct 2, Mr Gowda had really turned grim.

This became evident when a group of media persons asked his reaction to this the next day at his residence.

The senior Gowda threatened to throw out the media. When a reporter persisted, he thundered: “Don’t increase your voice. I will send you out right away...Listen to whatever I say and get going,” he thundered.
With Gowda being what he is, should one blame him for this or the BJP?

P M Raghunandan Subordinate’s plea for publicity!
The police department attaches great respect to hierarchy. Many a times, the hierarchy comes in the way of subordinates taking the credit in media. But still, subordinates, keep trying different ways to shine in the media.
When this reporter was collecting women cops’ opinions on an issue, the inspector, who gave her reaction first, called a senior head constable to her chamber to give her opinion.

The senior lady, hesitantly, said she didn’t have anything to say after the inspector had said all. When pressed further she said, it was enough if the name and photo of the inspector appeared in the paper.

However when the reporter was about to leave, the senior head constable rushed and asked as to when her name and photo would be published. This, she did, by managing to escape the eye of the inspector!

Jagadish Angadi Cool ‘n’ composed before tigers!
What one would have done if they had encountered a tiger face to face? May run for life! But Shekar Dattatri, noted wildlife conservationist, had an interesting experience to share with the audience at the screening of his film ‘Monsoon-India’s God of Life’.

Since the monsoon had begun, he was hoping to get some scenes of tigers and its cubs playing in the lake. One day, he spotted the tigers moving towards the lake and he along with his crew, followed them nearly 200 meters away. However, they soon lost the track of the tigers. Even before the crew could catch up the tigers, they heard a loud frightening noise.

“For a moment, I thought  they (tigers) had spotted a lion and were trying to protect their cubs. When we reached the spot, we were shocked to see a sadhu. He had apparently visited a temple nearby and was returning, when he came in contact with the tigers,” he narrated.

 “The tigers ran away seeing the sadhu and this man was ‘as cool as cucumber’.

Just imagine a person encountering a tiger face to face! But it did not have impact on him... he smiled at us and moved away,” he concluded.