DK Shivakumar tears up while remembering Dhruvanarayana during condolence motion in Karnataka Assembly

“He should have been sitting beside me, here, as minister,” Shivakumar said, tearing up. “He should have been here. Nobody could have stopped it… Today, he is not there. His wife is not there. Only his son is with me, as MLA. Many of his followers are hurt. It might have hurt me as a friend, but many followers are hurt too” the Congress leader said, his voice quivering. Less than a month after Dhruvanarayana’s death, the family suffered another blow as his wife Veena died in a private hospital in Mysuru in April.

The Congress then fielded their son, Darshan Dhruvanarayana, 28, as the candidate from Nanjangud constituency and he won by a margin of 47,000 votes. He is the youngest member of the 16th Karnataka Legislative Assembly which came to power in May.

Dhruvanarayana was of gentle nature and always had a smiling face, Shivakumar said, recalling that he never talked about caste. “We talk about caste all the time. Being from an SC community, he never talked about caste and took everyone together. We have lost a great friend and brother. Offering condolences during the motion is painful,” he said.

“Dhruvanarayana was with me as a student leader. Later, he joined the BJP once. I brought him back to the Congress,” the deputy CM recalled, noting that the KPCC working chief’s first Assembly election win in 2004 was by a single vote.

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