Shivakumar asks Karnataka police ‘Are you trying to saffronise?’

Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Tuesday rapped Karnataka police officials and questioned them whether they are trying to saffronise the state police department.

“Are you all set to saffronise the police department? We will not allow it under our government,” Shivakumar stated while addressing the meeting of high-level police



officers of Karnataka at the Conference Hall in Vidhana Soudha of Bengaluru.

“We know how police officers came to the police station wearing saffron shawls in Mangaluru, Bijapur (Vijayapura), Bagalkot and insulted the department,” he said. “You should have come to this meeting wearing a saffron shawl,” Shivakumar taunted the police officers.