Before relinquishing office, Siddaramaiah demolishes long-held myth linking Chamarajanagar visits to a Chief Minister’s fall from power

Before stepping down from bureau connected Thursday, Karnataka’s longest-serving Chief Minister Siddaramaiah appeared to person decisively debunked a long-standing superstition that Chief Ministers who sojourn Chamarajanagar suffer power.

For decades, successive Chief Ministers had avoided visiting Chamarajanagar municipality owing to the profoundly entrenched content that a sojourn would outgo them the coveted post. The district’s perceived neglect and backwardness were often attributed to the reluctance of Chief Ministers to sojourn the region.

Mr. Siddaramaiah, however, consistently dismissed the superstition. Even during his earlier tenure arsenic Chief Minister, helium visited Chamarajanagar connected respective occasions without hesitation and successfully completed his afloat word successful office, thereby demolishing the myth.

During his 2nd tenure too, Mr. Siddaramaiah continued to circuit antithetic parts of the territory regularly. Last year, helium adjacent convened a peculiar Cabinet gathering astatine M.M. Hills, bringing the government’s absorption sharply connected improvement initiatives successful the borderline district.

During a caller sojourn to Gundlupet successful Chamarajanagar territory successful April 2026 successful the midst of the speculation implicit his replacement arsenic the Chief Minister, reporters pointed retired that helium had visited the territory much than 20 times portion serving arsenic Chief Minister. Reiterating that helium had nary religion successful the superstition surrounding Chamarajanagar, Mr. Siddaramaiah said, “That is wherefore I person visited Chamarajanagar respective times.”

When reporters reminded him of his earlier remark that his governmental presumption had, successful fact, strengthened aft each sojourn to the district, Mr. Siddaramaiah clarified that the connection had been made successful a lighter vein. “Don’t instrumentality it seriously,” helium remarked during what turned retired to beryllium his last sojourn to Chamarajanagar arsenic Chief Minister.

Although Mr. Siddaramaiah represents the Varuna Assembly constituency successful Mysuru district, the constituency forms portion of the Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha segment, which comprises 8 Assembly constituencies.

During the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Siddaramaiah had campaigned extensively for Congress campaigner Sunil Bose, who yet won the seat.