<p class="bodytext">Bengaluru: Writers are politicians too, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said on Tuesday, defending a meeting he held with heads of various academies at the Congress office recently.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“It was me who called them for a meeting in the Congress office. What’s wrong with that? Writers are politicians too and they can enter politics,” Shivakumar, also Karnataka Congress president, said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP had objected to writers heading state-run academies attending a meeting inside the Congress office. </p>.Kumaraswamy mocks DKS’ black magic claim, says govt can set up SIT.<p class="bodytext">“They are appointed by the government. They can be called anywhere for meetings. There’s nothing that says they (writers) shouldn’t become politicians,” he said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Shivakumar argued that academies are not independent bodies. “All are politicians. They do politics by having their own ideologies. They may not talk about it. When I called them (for a meeting), those willing came, some didn’t,” he said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">Bengaluru: Writers are politicians too, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said on Tuesday, defending a meeting he held with heads of various academies at the Congress office recently.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“It was me who called them for a meeting in the Congress office. What’s wrong with that? Writers are politicians too and they can enter politics,” Shivakumar, also Karnataka Congress president, said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP had objected to writers heading state-run academies attending a meeting inside the Congress office. </p>.Kumaraswamy mocks DKS’ black magic claim, says govt can set up SIT.<p class="bodytext">“They are appointed by the government. They can be called anywhere for meetings. There’s nothing that says they (writers) shouldn’t become politicians,” he said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Shivakumar argued that academies are not independent bodies. “All are politicians. They do politics by having their own ideologies. They may not talk about it. When I called them (for a meeting), those willing came, some didn’t,” he said.</p>