After Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw criticised Bengaluru's roads on X, Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar said, "Business leaders are hurting their own country." "Where were they for the last 25 years? Bengaluru has made the highest contribution to their growth," he said. In her post, Shaw said an overseas business visitor asked her about Bengaluru's "bad roads" and "garbage".