India, April 8 -- BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Monday criticised Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar for the grand launch of a routine pothole repair initiative in Bengaluru, calling it an "unprecedented fanfare" for what should be regular civic work.

"I don't think anywhere in the whole world, a regular pothole repair work will be started with such fanfare!" Surya posted on social media platform X.

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"The amount of public money spent in just fixing potholes and relaying them repeatedly in Bengaluru is mind-boggling. Cities even in countries much behind India do a better job in maintaining roads than Bengaluru."

His comments ca...