Siddaramaiah loses cool, misbehaves with woman

MYSURU: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah was caught on camera misbehaving with a woman here on Monday.

In a video, Siddaramaiah can be seen furiously snatching a mike, in the process of which her dupatta also fell.

The woman was apparently raising some issue, which agitated the Congress leader.

An infuriated Siddaramaiah then asked the woman to sit down, while the latter keeps on making her argument.

A few seconds later, when the woman again stands up to speak up; the former chief minister again taps her on the shoulder asking her to sit down.

The incident reportedly occurred during a public meeting at districts' Varuna area.

#WATCH Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah misbehaves with a woman at a public meeting in Mysuru. #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/MhQvUHIc3x

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Later while commenting on the incident, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president Dinesh Gundu Rao said, Siddaramaiah's actions were "unintentional".

"Sometimes when people start asking questions in a rough way and after hearing them out when they don't stop, you want to pull the mic. When pulling the mic the dupatta came along with. There was no such intention," said Rao.