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'Why Savarkar?': Naming of flyover in Bengaluru sparks political row

Siddaramaiah, former chief minister and leader of the Opposition, said the move to name the flyover after Savarkar was an insult to the freedom fighters

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The flyover is built with an investment of about Rs 34 crore

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‘Why Savarkar?’ 

Political parties in Karnataka are bickering over the naming of a flyover, built with an investment of about Rs 34 crore, in Bengaluru. The 400-metre-long flyover at Yelahanka, scheduled to be inaugurated on Thursday by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, has been named after freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar, whose birth anniversary is on May 28. Siddaramaiah, former chief minister and leader of the Opposition, said the move to name the flyover after Savarkar was an insult to the freedom fighters of the state and urged Yediyurappa to name it after someone from Karnataka. In an angry

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