August 31, 2026 12:02 pm (IST)

Make this your homepage

News

VHP breaks silence on Durga Puja ‘guidelines’: No blanket non-veg ban, clarifies stand on theme pandals amid backlash | No non-veg near pandals, no ‘distorted’ idols: VHP’s Durga Puja guidelines spark Bengal debate | ‘Either they will stay, or we will’: Suvendu Adhikari's warning to Jadavpur students over 'Azadi' slogans | 'Inaccurate reports': Penguin India denies dropping Sonia Gandhi memoir | ‘Clean my shoes’: Greater Noida woman detained after alleged abuse, assault of security guards | 21-year-old model stabbed to death in Delhi; gym trainer arrested after encounter | Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O'Brien, other TMC leaders booked after Camac Street clash with Kolkata Police | Kanpur plane crash: Training aircraft crashes near Ganges, two pilots killed | Big IT boost for Bengal: LTM opens global delivery & AI centre in Kolkata's New Town | 21-year-old Delhi model found stabbed at Delhi home, gym trainer accused of killing her

Siddaramaiah

Siddaramaiah making a slapping gesture at a cop on stage at a rally in Belagavi. Photo courtesy: Screen-grab from X post

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah makes slapping gesture at cop, draws flak

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Apr 29, 2025, at 12:02 pm

Bengaluru/IBNS: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has stirred a row by making a slapping gesture at a police officer at his rally in Belagavi.

In a widely circulated video on social media, Siddaramaiah was seen visibly upset at the disruption at his rally and that led him to summon the additional superintendent of police.

Siddaramaiah pointed his finger and said, "Come here, who is the SP? What are you doing?"

As the cop arrives on stage, Siddaramaiah vented out his frustrations and made a slapping gesture at the police officer who was taken aback.

#WATCH | Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah angrily calls a Police officer on stage during Congress' protest rally in Belagavi and gestures raising his hand at him.

During the CM's address here, a few women, who are reportedly BJP activists, indulged in sloganeering… pic.twitter.com/qtC6hL9UYT
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2025

Slamming the Chief Minister, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT Cell head Amit Malviya wrote on X, " The Karnataka Police is a professional force, not Siddaramaiah’s private militia. How dare he raise his hand to slap a cop in uniform?

"He should be castigated for overstepping his authority as Chief Minister and should apologise to the officer on duty. Shameful."

The Karnataka Police is a professional force, not Siddaramaiah’s private militia. How dare he raise his hand to slap a cop in uniform? He should be castigated for overstepping his authority as Chief Minister and should apologise to the officer on duty. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/1mH5wL5wKJ
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) April 28, 2025

The disruption was reportedly caused by a few women from the BJP who were raising slogans against the Congress government and CM Siddaramaiah.

Siddaramaiah, a senior Congress leader, faced the BJP ire after he said in the rally that India should not rush into war against Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack but focus on strengthening security measures.

#Karnataka # Siddaramaiah # Police officer # Slapping Gesture # Karnataka CM # Belagavi

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.