Addressing a roadside public meeting, Yatindra said Yaduveer lived in an ivory tower and was unaware of the problems faced by the common people. "When we ourselves cannot go inside his private palace, how can you expect the ordinary workers to enter the palace?” he asked.

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After the BJP named Yaduveer as the candidate for Mysore-Kodagu, Siddaramaiah had instructed his party men not to make any adverse or objectionable comments on the member of the popular royal family, lest it alienate the people.

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Within a week of the directive, Yatindra violated it by commenting on Yaduveer's lifestyle, inadvertently playing into the BJP hands. The saffron party wasted no time in assailing Yatindra and the Congress, pointing out the Wadiyars had been one of the most progressive rulers in pre-independent India.

In the past, Siddaramaiah had come under fire even from his party members for questioning the contributions of the Mysore rulers and stating that the development works they implemented was out of people's money.

In another incident, when Yaduveer's predecessor Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar passed away in 2013, the royal family had requested the government to scale down the Dasara celebrations that year but the chief minister rejected it, saying the royal reign had ended long ago. But the government had to climb down, after senior Congress leaders like V Srinivasaprasad and A H Vishwanath intervened.

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