Yeddyurappa said Kumaraswamy Son wedding held within the limits
Virtually defending the Gowda family for conducting a marriage reportedly defying lockdown restrictions, chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on tuesday said it was performed in a simple manner and well within their limits, "for which they are to be congratulated." All the necessary permissions were given and the marriage was performed in a simple manner. There is no need to discuss it. They had done it well within their limits for which I congratulate them," Yeddyurappa said to a query from reporters during the post-COVID-19 briefing.
Scores of people had thronged a farmhouse on friday to get a glimpse of the wedding of former prime minister and JD(S) supremo, HD Deve Gowda's grandson nikhil Kumaraswamy, ignoring appeals not to visit the venue in view of the ongoing lockdown to check the COVID-19 outbreak. nikhil, son of former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, tied the nuptial knot with revathi, the grand-niece of former karnataka housing minister M Krishnappa.
The marriage was solemnised at Kumaraswamy's Kuthaganahalli farmhouse at Bidadi in the neighbouring Ramanagara district, a JD(S) stronghold. bjp had hit out at the JD(S) first family for flouting the norms, alleging that at least 150 to 200 vehicles were given permission to attend the event, that too at at time when social workers wanting to serve the badly affected poor people were not being allowed to ply any form of transport and JD(S) leader N H Konareddi and MLC TA Sharavanna had denied the charges, saying the union government guidelines had been followed and that social distancing was maintained.