A day after Karnataka Speaker Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri passed an order banning private channel cameras inside the Assembly for the winter session, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa tweeted in favour of the media. 'My government is always committed to freedom of media. I will make a sincere effort and request speaker Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri to reconsider his decision on barring media from telecasting the house proceedings' tweeted the Chief Minister. When in power media has been barred from streaming the assembly session, Such a shameful act' said a tweet from the Congress. While Savadi is now Dy CM of Karnataka, Patil is the Minister for Mines and Geology in the state cabinet.

Source: dna October 10, 2019 08:14 UTC