Karnataka Minister flings biscuit packets at flood victims in Kerala

Karnataka Minister H D Revanna courted a controversy after a video purportedly showing him flinging biscuit packets at flood victims in a relief camp in Hassan district went viral today.

Karnataka Minister H D Revanna courted a controversy after a video purportedly showing him flinging biscuit packets at flood victims in a relief camp in Hassan district went viral today.

Revanna, PWD Minister and brother of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, was seen picking biscuit packets and hurling them at the people sheltered in the relief camp.

As the video clip went viral in the social media besides being aired by TV channels, netizens termed Revanna's action as 'insensitive'. Defending him, JDS leaders, including his son Prajwal Revanna, said he was "a humble" person and wanted to help the flood-hit people at the camp.

"My father is a humble person. Since he has concern for the marooned, he had visited relief camps to give them succor," Prajwal Revanna told reporters. Several districts in Karnataka have been hit by heavy rains in the past several days.

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