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Karnataka CM Tweets About ‘Allowing’ Ambulance To Overtake His Convoy, Twitter Slams Him For Treating It As An Achievement

Do you think that making a way for a hurrying ambulance is a great achievement? If you are in traffic and you hear an ambulance siren, you will give way to the vehicle, right?

It’s not an achievement, but it’s considered as responsibility and common sense from human’s side, isn’t it? We don’t treat that as an achievement. Making a way to an ambulance is the most vital and common road etiquette.

It is a given that ambulance and fire engines and vehicles with the red emergency sirens ON are supposed to be made way for, no matter how heavy the traffic is on the road.

While the ‘VIP culture’ in India has previously shown records of how many people on roads are affected due to VIPs’ cars and convoys blocking roads and restricting traffic movements, this is unarguably a welcome thing, from Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah.

But making way to an ambulance for Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah seems to agree with the ideology and he took to Twitter to post about how he too “allowed an ambulance to overtake his convoy”.

CM Siddaramaiah tweeted a video of the clean roads of Bengaluru, after praising the Bengaluru traffic police for prioritizing the movement of ambulances. But the words, if not chosen well, can prove fatal.

If one tweet hitting himself on the back on how he “allowed” the ambulance to go wasn’t enough, the CM went on to retweet a post by the police on the same thing.

As soon as the CM posted the video on his Twitter handle, it did not take much time for Twitter users to rip his post apart.

In June 2016, a video showing an ambulance being stopped to allow Siddaramaiah’s convoy to pass through went viral, drawing criticism for the VIP culture in the society. This repeated again this year on May 4, when the traffic police restricted traffic for the CM’s convoy to pass near Town Hall. This was when Siddaramaiah issued the orders to not stop ambulances for the movement of VIP convoys.

What do you say about CM Siddaramaiah making way to an ambulance? Do you treat it as an achievement? Share your views with us in the comments section below.