Nehru Laid Foundation For B’luru: Shivakumar

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress chief DK Shivakumar has said that if India's first Prime Minister late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had not demonstrated the foresight to set up a series of public sector industries in Bengaluru, the state capital perhaps would not have developed so much.

Addressing a gathering at the summit, he said, "If all those visionary educationists hadn’t set up so many engineering colleges and technology institutes in Bengaluru, perhaps Bengaluru would not be Bengaluru today...If Azim Premjis and Narayana Murthys of the world had not ventured out, perhaps Bengaluru would not be Bengaluru today."