Yediyurappa defends Gowda family marriage

BENGALURU ;

VIRTUALLY defending the Gowda family for conducting a marriage reportedly defying lockdown restrictions, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday said it was performed in a simple manner and well within their limits, “for which they are to be congratulated.” “All the necessary permissions were given and the marriage was performed in a simple manner. There is no need to discuss about it.

They had done it well within their limits for which I congratulate them,” Yediyurappa said to a query from reporters during the post-COVID-19 briefing. Scores of people had thronged a farmhouse on Friday to get a glimpse of the wedding of former Prime Minister and JD (S) supremo, H D Deve Gowda’s grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy, ignoring appeals not to visit the venue in view of the ongoing lockdown to check the COVID-19 outbreak.

Nikhil, son of former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, tied the nuptial knot with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Karnataka housing Minister M Krishnappa. The marriage was solemnised at Kumaraswamy’s Kethaganahalli farmhouse at Bidadi in the neighbouring Ramanagara district, a JD(S) stronghold. POLICE DENY VIOLATION OF LOCKDOWN: AMID charges and counter-charges between Karnataka’s ruling BJP and the Opposition JD-S, police denied lockdown violations at the wedding of Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Gowda with Revathi. “Lockdown norms were followed and about 100 people, including family members and close relatives of Kumaraswamy were allowed to attend the wedding at the farmhouse earlier in the day,” Bidadi PSI Bhaskar told.