MY STATEMENT
A FACTCHECK ON SHRI. SIDDARAMAIAH’S RECORD AS LONGEST SERVING CHIEF MINISTER
The newspapers today have claimed that Shri.
@siddaramaiah has become the longest serving chief minister of Karnataka surpassing Shri. D
#DevarajUrs’ record. I congratulate him, but would also like to present him with a small factcheck.
Shri. Urs was chief minister for continuous terms from March 1972 to January 1980. His term was not broken like that of Shri. Siddaramaiah, who lost power in 2018 when Congress was defeated in the polls, and he himself had lost his Chamundeshwari seat in Mysore. It was a saving grace that he had won by a thousand-odd votes in Badami, the other seat he had contested.
Even when it comes to Shri. Urs, he had long years in office because the 1976 elections were postponed by Smt.
#IndiraGandhi who had imposed the Emergency and jailed all Opposition leaders. For a couple of months at the beginning of 1978 there was President’s rule in Karnataka. But still, as chief minister, Shri. Urs had continuous terms.
Will Shri. Siddaramaiah on the happy occasion of breaking Shri. Urs’ record condemn the Emergency imposed by Smt. Indira Gandhi? Will he also condemn Smt. Indira Gandhi for her anti-democratic actions? Will he also condemn Smt. Indira Gandhi for dislodging Shri. Urs, the social justice champion who had actually given her a rebirth in politics. Shri. Urs died a sad man abandoned by all the Congressmen who claim him today. Shri. Mallikarjun
@kharge would know better about this.
It may be noted that India’s longest serving chief ministers like Shri. Pawan Kumar Chamling, Shri.
@Naveen_Odisha, Shri. Jyoti Basu, Shri. Mohan Lal Sukhadia, Shri Manik Sarkar, Kum.
@MamataOfficial and Shri.
@narendramodi among others have all served unbroken terms, and that too for more than a decade.
I only wish Shri. Siddaramaiah and his followers were more modest about his non-achievement. His record does not sadly qualify for even the Limca Book of Records or the Guinness World Records.
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