CM gives Kumaraswamy clean chit over son’s ’simple manner’ wedding

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Bengaluru, April 19, 2020: Even as BJP had hit out at the Kumaraswamy wedding, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Saturday said that the function was conducted in a ’simple manner’ and ’well within their limits’.

Former CM HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil tied knot with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Karnataka housing minister M Krishnappa on April 17. As pictures and videos from the function surfaced, the JD(S) first family faced the allegations of flouting the lockdown norms.

"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 responded to the media.

Scores of people had thronged Kumaraswamy’s Kethaganahalli farmhouse at Bidadi 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. Kumaraswamy also took to Twitter after the marriage, thanking his party MLAs, leaders and workers for staying away from the event and blessing his son from their houses. In a series of tweets, he had said social distancing was maintained and all precautionary measures were taken throughout the event.