Bengaluru: With each passing day, details are emerging on the reasons for Mr Krishna's anger against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah which was a major trigger for his exit from the Congress.
Sources said the final straw was Siddaramaiah's strategy to sideline Mr Krishna at the AICC headquarters using the influence of a party national general secretary and deliberately sidelining him during the Cauvery crisis. These made the veteran leader conclude that "enough was enough".
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, a senior leader observed that Mr Krishna was miffed with Siddaramaiah for constantly ignoring him over several matters since May 2013 when the party came to power. "Mr Krisha is regarded the modern architect of Bengaluru. Be it flyovers or underpasses, Namma Metro, Outer Ring Road, six-lane roads and many such projects, they were either conceived or launched during his tenure," the source explained. Mr Krishna was perhaps expecting his protégé - Siddaramaiah - whom he had helped set anchor in the Congress since 2006 after his exit from JD(S), to look up to him and seek advice frequently. "Instead, Siddaramaiah took the help of an AICC general secretary to snub Mr Krishna at the highest level in the party," the source added.
Apart from this, the CM left no stone unturned to hurt Mr Krishna's ego time and again. "Mr Krishna was the first to tour Mandya where farmers had committed suicide and it was he who offered monetary assistance to deceased farmers' families from his own resources. He even wrote to the state government highlighting the distress of farmers in the Cauvery basin. But Siddaramaiah instead of seeking his advice on these issues, approached Krishna’s arch rival, Mr H.D. Deve Gowda seeking his advice on Cauvery related issues, which is now seen as the primary reason for Mr Krishna’s exit from the party," the source contended.
