Chamarajnagar, Oct 8: Chief minister Siddaramaiah was a star at Monday's function where he not only scored some brownie points over his predecessors and rivals by visiting this allegedly jinxed town, he even tried to convince people that one should not be carried away by superstitions and orthodox traditions.
Gathered crowd went into a thunderous applause and cheered him whenever he claimed that he is the last person to believe in such dogmatic beliefs .
Though a function was organized to launch various developmental works and welfare schemes, every speaker addressing the gathering was obsessed with the jinxed status of the town and their speeches centered around this topic .
At one point of time district incharge and co-operation minister H S Mahadev Prasad went over board to declare that henceforth the town has got rid of the jinx with the chief minister Siddaramaiah visiting the town. Not only Mahadev Prasad, even revenue minister V Srinivasa Prasad dedicated most of his speech time to describe how the town got the tag of it being jinxed for the chief ministers.
Addressing the gathering Siddaramaiah tried his best to convince the people , especially the politicians who believe in such superstitions that the towns or places are not jinxed and it is people with weak mind who inject such feelings into people mind. " I have kept my promise of visiting the town made to the people of this district when I came here for the elections, I don't think that I will lose my job as feared by my predecessors who resisted to visit this town" he said ,adding he was here to participate in a function when J H Patel declared the formation of this new district . "Though Patel was a rationalist I don't know how this superstition of town being jinxed to chief ministers got into his mind and mostly the people surrounding him influenced him " he said recollecting how H D Kumaraswamy or Jagadish Shettar lost their jobs who visited the town .
He said: You know very well that BJP was a divided house and every body knew that it will lose power and Shettar lost his job after visiting the town, Kumaraswamy came at the fag end of his twenty months tenure and lost the job, town has nothing to do with they losing the job. " It was a coincidence these two lost job after the end of their terms and reinforced the belief of town being jinxed for the chief ministers, but nothing will happen to my position and I am sure that I will reach higher positions in future" he added.
Chief minister said in a democracy it is ultimately the people who give and take away the power and not the jinx . One should not believe in such superstitions which are detrimental to progress and development of the districts, he pointed out adding that Karnataka being a land of great saints and philosophers like Basavanna there should be no scope for such beliefs.
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