India, Aug. 22 -- Karnataka BJP president Vijayendra Yediyurappa on Thursday held Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar directly accountable for the June 4 stampede outside Bengaluru's M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, which claimed 11 lives during Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB) IPL victory celebrations.

Yediyurappa, speaking in the Assembly, said it was the Congress government that decided to host the grand felicitation, ignoring police warnings. "The government has taken disciplinary action against police officers, but the larger issue is the death of 11 innocent people. This was not the police department's decision. It was CM Siddaramaiah and Dy CM Shivakumar who insisted on organising the programme outside ...