India, Oct. 29 -- BJP MP from Bangalore South, Tejasvi Surya, on Wednesday took a dig at Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar over the latter's comment linking car ownership to marriage during a debate on a proposed tunnel road project in the city.

"For all these days, I was under the wrong impression that the tunnel project was aimed at solving Bengaluru traffic problem," Surya wrote in a post on X.

"Now, DCM has clarified that it is intended to solve a social problem - of people not wanting to marry a man without car. How stupid I was!" he added.

Surya had met Shivakumar on Tuesday to oppose the highly controversial and expensive "car-only" tunnel project, arguing that funds should instead be channelled into expanding the Me...