If it’s well-nigh impossible to get an audience with your Chief Minister in the State capital, follow him to the national capital.
That’s what a desperate Muniyamma, an elderly woman from Gudibande taluk in Chickballapur district, did to air her grievances to the CM on Monday.She boarded a train to New Delhi and caught Chief Minister Siddaramaiah relatively free as he waited for an audience with the high command.
Ms. Muniyamma, a senior citizen, had been running from pillar to post to get her grievance on land allotment addressed. She planned on meeting the Chief Minister, but realised that it would be difficult in Bengaluru owing to his busy schedule.
When she learnt that he would be in New Delhi on Monday, she got on the train to Delhi and went straight to Karnataka Bhavan.
The Chief Minister, who learnt about her from his staff, heard her out. He then spoke to Chickballapur Deputy Commissioner Dipti Aditya Kanade and directed her to look into Ms. Muniyamma’s problem, on a priority. He also asked officials at the Karnataka Bhavan to give her food and accommodation, and handed over some money for her return journey.
Sources in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat said the woman had not come even once to meet him during the Janata Darshan or on any other occasion in Karnataka. “She came to Dehli with someone,” sources said.
