Karnataka Congress Leaders Sport Flowers In Ear During Budget Presentation
NDTV
Karnataka Congress calls it #KiviMeleHoova, meaning 'flower on the ear', which symbolically represents that someone has been fooled.
In a peculiar protest against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka, Opposition leader Siddaramaiah and other Congress leaders came to the state Assembly with flowers on their ears, alleging that the BJP government has cheated people and made them fools by not fulfilling promises from the previous budget and the 2018 manifesto.
Chief Minister Basvaraj Bommai, who also holds the finance portfolio, is today presenting his second, and his government's last, budget before the upcoming state elections, scheduled for May this year.
Karnataka Congress calls it #KiviMeleHoova, meaning 'flower on the ear', which symbolically represents that someone has been fooled.
Siddaramaiah has repeatedly attacked Mr Bommai's government, claiming that the ruling party had given 600 promises in its election manifesto, but hardly 10 per cent of them were fulfilled.
