Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP) 

Bengaluru, Sep 25: Former chief ministers (CM) of the state, H D Kumaraswamy and Siddaramaiah, continued with their war of words against each other. Siddaramaiah took to twitter to toss barbs at Kumaraswamy while Kumaraswamy verbally attacked Siddaramaiah. 

Kumaraswamy had said that the parrots which Siddaramaiah raised went on to grow as eagles and pecked violently at him. Siddaramaiah, through a tweet in retaliation, said that the parrots in whom he reposed trust, had actually turned into his enemies because of his own mistake. "Even after 40 years of knowing one another, we believed eagles to be parrots and entered into alliance with them. We forgot that eagles are in the habit of attacking those who bring them up. This is a good experience for us and nothing can beat experience," he stated.

 
Happier days - File photo

He said that Congress has a clear dedication to secular principles and therefore, BJP, which is communal, no doubt is the foremost foe for his party. "Kumaraswamy entered into agreement with the BJP to rule the state. He appears to get confused often about secular principles," he mocked. 

Kumaraswamy reacted by saying that he had become chief minister once with Congress support and another time with BJP support. "I never said I became chief minister on my own," he said, speaking to reporters at JP Bhavan here. He reiterated that he had not become chief minister with the support of Siddaramaiah but the Congress high command had offered him that post. He challenged Siddaramaiah to prove his mettle by coming out of the Congress and building his own party. 

Kumaraswamy said he knows how Siddaramaiah sidelined original Congressmen and enjoyed his stint as chief minister. "By milking the power of the Congress, Siddaramaiah became the chief minister. I have never done politics under the shadow of Siddaramaiah. I invested money from my own sources for politics. I put my earning from cinema field into politics. When Siddaramaiah was the JD(S) president, I spent for him, I tied banners for his victory, and I spent my money, not Deve Gowda's," he stated. He accused Congress leaders of using him for their benefit and then dumping him. 

Kumaraswamy pointed out that Congress high command had approached him with an offer, and he had not waited at Congressmen's gates. "We formed the coalition government to keep up our electoral promise of waiving farm loans. I did not become chief minister for my sake, but for the sake of our farmers," he said.