Last Friday, 4th May 2018, I gave a sprinter’s chase to Dr. Yathindra, son of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who was on a roller-coaster election tour of his Varuna Constituency as a Congress party candidate. A medical doctor by profession, he was brought into politics by his father after the sad and untimely demise of his brother Rakesh Siddharamaiah, a very dynamic and aggressive youngster who seemed 100% made for politics. In contrast, Dr. Yathindra seemed rather too gentle, soft-spoken, even humble for the kind of highly competitive and pro-active, sometimes chaotic, electioneering. By the time I joined his election caravan, commonly known as Road Show, it was about 3 O’ Clock and he had already covered a few villages like Kupparavalli, Belagunda, a village apparently named recently as Kanakanagara, Sannamallupura and Sonahalli. We were able to catch-up with him at Kirugunda where he was heading after having lunch at one of his party worker’s house.
