Corridors of Power:Leader with a towering personality
The Hindu
‘Rosaiah gave NTR a tough time in business of Council’
Former Chief Minister K. Rosaiah was indeed a towering personality when it came to fulfilling legislative business either in the Assembly or Council.
Old timers recall that he was among a handful of Congress leaders who gave then Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao a tough time in the business of the Council from Opposition benches in eighties. NTR later went on to abolish the Upper House.
When his turn to tackle the Opposition as Minister in the Assembly came, he handled the situation with equal deftness. On one occasion when Leader of Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu went on haranguing that his government had done a lot for the development of the State, Rosaiah as Legislative Affairs Minister rose up to recall the development in pre-independence era under British rule.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.