Shaw, Pai praise DKS for ‘rescuing the city’

In a brick-to-bouquet move, Biocon main Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has showered praises connected Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, terming his enactment cardinal successful “rescuing Bengaluru from collapsing nether the value of garbage, debris and potholes.”

“We are yet seeing visible change in cleaner ft paths n asphalted roads crossed the city. @DKShivakumar your leadership has been cardinal successful rescuing our metropolis from collapsing nether the value of garbage debris n pot holes. Please proceed to thrust this important development. Credit is besides owed to @GBAChiefComm. Let’s build a worldclass metropolis done corporate civic work @BPAofficial,” she wrote connected her X handle. 

Turn astir

A time earlier, Industrialist Mohandas Pai thanked Mr. Shivakumar, Minister of Bengaluru Development, for his “leadership and drive.”

Quoting a station by the Minister who claimed to person finished achromatic topping enactment connected 39 cardinal roads, helium wrote connected X, “Thank you DCM @DKShivakumar for your enactment and thrust successful getting this done. Look guardant to make Bengaluru a genuinely planetary metropolis with large mobility and easiness of beingness for each citizens.” 

The turnaround by the firm leaders comes adjacent connected the heels of the GBA Chief Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao claiming to person completed the filling of 18,000 potholes and aft a prolonged warfare of words that started with an X station by Ms. Shaw criticising the city’s infrastructural issues. 

Mr. Shivakumar who initially took a conciliatory tone, however, later criticised Ms. Shaw for ‘tarnishing the representation of the State and the country’ by specified societal media posts.    

In what seemed similar a amusement of achromatic flag, Ms. Shaw visited the Minister connected the time of Deepavali, where, according to Mr. Shivakumar, ‘they had an engaging treatment connected Bengaluru’s growth, innovation, and the way up for Karnataka’s maturation story.” 

The meeting

Mr. Shivakumar held a gathering with some Mr. Pai and Ms. Shaw aft Deepavali, joined by Mr. Rao and different GBA officials. After the meeting, Mr. Shivakumar had said, “Entrepreneurs are our brothers and sisters.”

However, helium added that they (entrepreneurs) should not “tarnish” the representation of Bengaluru. “I person told them that their disapproval volition marque planetary news. They person fixed bully suggestions for Bengaluru,” helium said. 

Mr. Shivakumar besides noted that the they had included entrepreneurs successful advisory committees.