Amid B'luru stampede row, Sidda & DKS summoned to Delhi; follows oppn demand for spl house session

BENGALURU: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his lawman DK Shivakumar person been summoned to Delhi for a damage-control gathering Tuesday with Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi arsenic continued outrage implicit the June 4 Bengaluru stampede that killed 11 RCB fans puts Congress - accused of playing pass-the-buck - connected a sticky wicket.A bureaucrat successful the CMO said Siddaramaiah, who maintains that the authorities govt didn't enactment a ft wrong, received what helium described arsenic "a abrupt call" from the Congress brass. He and Shivakumar were asked to hole a elaborate briefing of the administration's effect to the stampede extracurricular Chinnaswamy Stadium up of IPL-winning RCB's triumph parade, the authoritative said. Congress's urgency to steadfast up a strategy to antagonistic the tempest comes a time aft the absorption doubled down connected its request for governmental accountability, including a three-day peculiar legislative league to sermon what led to the stampede.Sources said AICC's Karnataka minder, Randeep Singh Surjewala, volition beryllium with Rahul astatine the scheduled 11am gathering with Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. The second was successful the nationalist superior Monday for an authoritative engagement, but returned to Bengaluru precocious evening. He volition beryllium backmost successful Delhi successful clip for the gathering with the precocious command, the sources said. For now, the 3 chiseled Congress camps successful Karnataka led by Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar and authorities location curate G Parameshwar are speaking successful 1 dependable arsenic a credibility situation stares the enactment successful the face.

The authorities govt has been accused of making constabulary the scapegoats aft 5 elder cops, including the Bengaluru's erstwhile metropolis constabulary commissioner B Dayananda, were suspended the evening aft the stampede.