Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jan 23: State social welfare minister, Priyank Kharge, bending to the wishes of the protesters who were against holding 'Conversations of the Constitution' seminar in partnership with NDTV and Samruddha Bharat at a hotel here on Tuesday, had announced that the programme had been cancelled. The protesters said that it was not right to go ahead with this programme as the state was in mourning after the demise of Sri Shivakumara Swamiji.

After the first session ended, secretary in social welfare department, G Kumar Nayak, had officially announced that the programme had ended, and requested the participants to leave after having food. But later it came to the notice of media persons that the programme was secretly held after the lunch break, on the subject of centralization of power and right to privacy. Kanhaiya Kumar spoke on the issue at the programme. An organizer said that only 50 percent of the people who were present in the morning session attended it.

When some media persons went to report the programme in the afternoon, the security staff sent them back by informing that the programme had been cancelled.