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Minister’s arrogance, student slapped over selfie

We often hear on news the arrogance of the VVIP where they display their power towards their fans and followers in a negative way. This report is one such news.

Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar lost his cool and allegedly slapped a student who was only trying to take a ‘selfie’ with him.

In a video aired by local media, Karnataka’s Energy Minister can be seen ‘slapping’ the student’s hand as he attempted to capture a selfie with the senior minister.

The incident is said to have taken place at Belgavi, where the minister had gone to attend a function at an engineering college.

As the minister was addressing reporters, the boy sneaked behind him in an attempt to take a selfie. However, visibly annoyed with this, the minister slapped the phone out the boy’s hand.

Shockingly, even as the minister hit the boy, none of Shivakumar’s supporters helped the student, and in fact, some of them were even seen laughing over the incident, as per the visuals.

The minister later defended his action, saying it was a “normal incident”.

“Have basic common sense. When I’m carrying out my responsibility and addressing the press, how can someone come out for a selfie? It was a normal incident,” he said.

Mr. Shivakumar, who handles the energy portfolio in the Siddaramaiah government, was raided by the Income Tax authorities in August. Sources had told NDTV that more than Rs.300 crore of “undisclosed income” was found during the raids.

The raids took place as 43 Gujarat lawmakers were flown into Karnataka by the Congress to check a rash of defections ahead of Rajya Sabha Election in the western state. Mr. Shivakumar, who had been in charge of looking after the lawmakers, was picked up for questioning from a luxury resort in Bengaluru where he was staying with them.

Denying any wrongdoing, the minister had said, “I’m not the kind of person that violates the law and the Constitution… the truth will come out”.

Questioning the timing of raids, his party, the Congress had accused the government of misusing Central agencies.

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