MYSURU: Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah courted controversy on Monday when he lost his temper after questions were raised about his son, Congress MLA Yathindra Siddaramaiah. The ex-CM abused a local woman Congress leader and pushed her during a public event.Siddaramaiah was listening to public grievances at Gargeshwari near Mysuru. Jamal Ara, who was T Narsipur taluk panchayat president a decade ago, approached him with complaints about the revenue officials.The woman, a Congress member for over two decades, said she wasn’t able to reach Yathindra to speak about her grievances and banged the table to indicate her displeasure. An enraged Siddaramaiah sprung up, snatched the mike from her. In the melee, Jamal Ara’s dupatta got entangled with the mike and came off.She continued with her complaint, when Siddaramaiah lost his temper and asked her to shut up. He pushed her, indicating that she take her seat. “Have you ever come and met me? How many times have I visited the city,” Siddaramaiah asked. When she replied that she doesn’t get to know about his visits, Siddaramaiah shot back: “I cannot write a letter to you and tell that I’ll be in Mysuru.”Later, Jamal Ara sought to play down the incident saying Siddaramaiah was enraged because she banged the table. “He is my leader and the tiger of Mysuru,’’ she added.“When I tried to stop our party worker for taking more time, (it) was an accident (sic),” Siddaramaiah tweeted.