14
Oct

CM, listen to your WIFE, not your advisers

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife B.M. Parvathi has returned the 14 disputed sites to MUDA (Mysuru Urban Development Authority). A kind gesture indeed, but also… kinda pointless.
We are sure the family lawyers knew that returning the sites was a ‘moot point’, unless it was meant to evoke public sympathy for the CM.
In the case of 14 MUDA sites, the legal process has begun and it will go on. What is interesting though is the CM’s wife Parvathi’s letter.
To begin, anyone should feel sympathetic towards Parvathi — a lady who has kept away from public life completely to now be dragged into this controversy and forced to write a public letter is unfortunate.
Like a good life-partner, Parvathi seems to feel guilty and terrible that her 14 sites have embarrassed her husband. But she should  realise that it was not her fault at all.
Finally the CM himself who, instead of nipping it in the bud let his ego get the better of him as he thundered “our land value is Rs. 62 crore, let them give it back to us.”