Shettar goes where BSY wouldn’t

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Chamarajanagar: Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Wednesday def­ied superstition and pooh-poohed all talk of the so-ca­lled ‘Chamarajanagar jinx’ by becoming only the second CM to visit the district headquarters in the past 21 years. JD(S) chief H.D. Ku­ma­raswamy was the last CM to visit Chamar­ajan­agar taluk in 2007.
Mr. Shettar topped off his visit which had seen a cla­mour from locals pleading with him not to visit, by promising a Rs 100 cr special grant for Chamaraj­anagar district in the forthcoming budget, this Feb. Oth­er sops? An animal hus­ba­n­dry college, dri­n­king water facility, and other projects totalling Rs 648 cr.
Mr. Shettar, who knows well that he only has three months left in office said: “Avoiding a particular taluk or district fearing a jinx is rubbish.”
What he left unsaid, his arch enemy B S Yeddy­urappa had given the town a miss.
Shettar said he became CM after visiting Chamar­a­j­anagar when he was rural development minister and speaker of the assembly. “The Cham­a­ra­j­a­nagar jinx is unjustifiable and illogical. I’ll revisit Chamarajanagar after presenting the budget in February,” he said.
If, he is still king of all he surveys at the Vidhana Soudha.