Tears don’t reflect my helplessness: HDK

Days after his emotional speech at a Janata Dal (S ) event in Bengaluru fuelled speculation over strain in ties with coalition partner Congress, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said he had shed tears not out of “helplessness” and asserted that he did not speak anything against the Congress.

Kumaraswamy said there was nothing wrong in being emotional at a party event which was like a “family function” for him and accused the media of hyping the issue.

The chief minister, who was here to meet Union Ministers on state’s pending projects, told reporters that nowhere during his speech he said that the Congress or its leaders were troubling him.

“I’m an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness. Did I shed tears at a government programme? As chief minister I have worked towards implementing programmes strongly,” he said.

“I spoke for an hour on that day. Nowhere I talked anything about the Congress creating problems. I have told media friends that despite difficulty I have faced, the strong step of loan waiver has been implemented. But somewhere tears don’t reflect helplessness, never said Congress troubling me, Kumaraswamy said.

“While speaking about it, I got emotional as I felt that people still don’t have faith in me (that I will deliver), and not because I was unable to bear any problem created by any party,” he said.

Kumaraswamy said his “media friends” made it a big issue and created a national debate out of it.

“I have been seeing for the last 55 days, from the time I became the chief minister, the electronic media has created news as they want and placed it before the people. Who will benefit out of it? Why are you doing it? Is there a need for it,” he asked.