Lok Sabha elections 2024 | Trivia: Siddaramaiah's tryst with destiny

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is a known rationalist. But he has had two trysts with prophecies that came true.

When Siddaramaiah was a kid, his grandmother Mallamma had a vision in which she saw him as a king. She used to tell him that he’d become a big man.

Then, after he won his first election as a Taluk Board member in 1978, Siddaramaiah was smoking at a friend’s shop in Mysuru when he ran into a local astrologer. “You’ll reach the top in politics,” he told Siddaramaiah. Unimpressed, he shooed away the astrologer.

A few years later, Siddaramaiah became an MLA. “See, I told you,” the astrologer told Siddaramaiah, who has since maintained that it was “just a coincidence”.