{"id":86466,"date":"2017-05-26T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=86466"},"modified":"2017-05-26T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:31:17","slug":"cm-sidda-sleeps-in-press-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/cm-sidda-sleeps-in-press-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Sidda sleeps in Press meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CM Sidda is known to doze off at the most inconvenient of times, when the world&#8217;s eye is on him, but Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah appears to have zoned out in the middle of a press conference of his Congress party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the press meet in Bengaluru, he is seen snoozing right next to Venugopal, party general secretary in-charge of Karnataka, who is addressing the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, he apparently did it at a Congress coordination committee meeting. When a party leader, Lakshmi Hebbalkar, realized that Mr Siddaramaiah was no longer er&#8230; paying attention, she reportedly asked a leader to nudge him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86467 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sleeping_Sidda1_760x400.jpg\" alt=\"CM Sidda sleeps in Press meet\" width=\"760\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It appears to be a chronic problem for the 68-year-old, who has been seen struggling to stay awake even during heated debates inside the assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three years ago, he notably fell asleep during a debate on sexual crimes including the rape of a six-year-old. While the evidence was on camera, he insisted, &#8220;I was not sleeping. It is not correct. I was very much attentive and listening.&#8221; His party did, after all, describe it as being &#8220;deep in thought&#8221; when another senior Congress leader was caught napping during a debate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also in 2014, Mr Siddaramaiah made headlines for appearing to fall asleep in not one but three functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CM Sidda is known to doze off at the most inconvenient of times, when the world&#8217;s eye is on him, but Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah appears to have zoned out in the middle of a press conference of his Congress party. At the press meet in Bengaluru, he is seen snoozing right next to Venugopal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[12916,5471,3514,306,2010,44502,1710,12258,44501,44503],"class_list":["post-86466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-68-year-old","tag-bengaluru","tag-chief-minister","tag-congress","tag-karnataka","tag-lakshmi-hebbalkar","tag-press-meet","tag-siddaramaiah","tag-sleeps","tag-venugopal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/siddaramaiah-story_647_022216102645.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}