After DKS' mom slams CM for raids, his brother says she is illiterate

A day after his mother accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of letting down her son Energy Minister D K Shivakumar, her younger son and MP D K Suresh on Friday sought to downplay her comments. Siddaramaiah however chose not to react.

“She is an illiterate. She has not been able to differentiate between the central and the state governments. She is under the impression that the state police has conducted the raids...The chief minister has extended full support to us,” Suresh told reporters, who sought his reaction to his mother Gowramma’s comments.

Gowramma’s comments had raised eyebrows in the state political circles. Speaking to a private Kannada news channel on Thursday, she had accused Siddaramaiah of being responsible for the raids on her son. The I-T department had also searched her house in Kanakapura taluk.

She had said Shivakumar had a lot of enemies in politics. His adversaries had not been able to digest his success in politics. Though Siddaramaiah had made use of her son for his political growth, he has repeatedly let him down, she added.

Speaking to reporters at his official residence “Cauvery,” Siddaramaiah hit back at the BJP for demanding the resignation of Shivakumar in the wake of raids. “Even Ananth Kumar (Union Minister) and Yeddyurappa (BJP state president) are facing many charges...They (BJP leaders) don’t have moral right to demand anybody’s resignation,” he said defending his Cabinet colleague.