Bengaluru: At a function held recently at the Banquet Hall of Vidhana Soudha in connection with the 131st birthday celebrations of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai honoured veteran singer S. Siddarth of Mysuru with ‘Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Award’ for conveying Dr. Ambedkar’s thoughts to the households in Karnataka.
The 82-year-old Siddarth, who is basically from Ashoka-puram and now staying in Siddarthanagar, was honoured at a function organised by State Social Welfare Department where Department Minister Kota Srinivasa Poojary, PWD Minister Chandrakant Patil, MLAs Arvind Limbavali, Rizwan Arshad and others were also present.
