YEDDY-MADE RUBBISH

YEDDY-MADE RUBBISH
BANGALORE MIRROR BUREAU


On Thursday, five days after the horrific attack by a fringe group on women at a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa (Yes, we know he doesn’t like being called Yeddy), made the first categorical statement on the incident. Condemning the violence — “Nobody should take law into their hands, it’s a very unfortunate incident”— he then went on to proclaim that he would not allow “Pub Culture in Karnataka to grow,” without quite specifying what he means by pub culture. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi where he is attending the BJP chief ministers’ meet, Yeddyurappa continued to waffle on the demand to ban the Sri Rama Sene.
However, it is the CM’s pub culture remark that has sparked a wave of concern among citizens in Bangalore, known for its emancipated, liberal culture of happy hours