Shivakumar unwell, docs suspect food poisoning

Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday complained of a bad stomach in what doctors suspected to be a case of food poisoning, which kept him confined to his Kanakapura home on Tuesday.

Sources close to Shivakumar attributed the bad stomach to a sandwich he consumed on his flight from Hyderabad to Bengaluru. This forced the minister to skip a Teacher’s Day event he was slated to attend in Kanakapura, his constituency. A team of doctors attended on him. He rested for nearly five hours.