Bengaluru, Nov. 11 -- The incident of devotees throwing footwear at a television screen displaying Chief Minister DK Shivakumar's image during his visit to the Hasanamba temple festivities in Hassan figured prominently in the BJP's protest against price rise on Wednesday, with Leader of Opposition R Ashoka sarcastically describing it as a public 'mangalarti' for the Chief Minister and predicting that the Congress would win fewer than 20 seats in the 2028 Assembly elections.
Addressing the protest at Freedom Park here, Ashoka invoked the incident to target Shivakumar, linking it to public resentment over rising prices of essential commodities and public transport fares.
"When you went for Hasanamba's darshan, people performed a mangalarti ...