Angry exit

Half the attendees stormed out in protest during the recent Dasara inauguration . As Booker prize awardee and Chief Guest Banu Mushtaq concluded her inaugural speech, female students from various hostels stood up and began leaving. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah gestured them to sit, but when some continued to cause a stir, District In-charge Minister HC Mahadevappa was speaking when MLA GT Devegowda came to the mic, urging, “The Chief Minister is speaking. Please sit down.” Even as Mahadevappa finished and the CM began, a few still got up, prompting an irritated Siddaramaiah to remark, “If you can’t sit through an hour of this program, why did you come? You should have stayed home,” and instructed the police to “seat them back inside.”

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