Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah attributed the stampede to local officials and the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). The state government was invited by the KSCA to participate in the Vidhana Soudha's felicitation ceremony.

At M Chinnaswamy Stadium, the RCB celebrated their first IPL title victory, and CM and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar were present. Outside the stadium, a stampede occurred as fans clamored for free tickets and entry into the venue, with 11 people, including kids, being trampled to death and several others injured.

Siddaramaiah, the chief minister of Karnataka, has expressed sorrow for the stampede outside Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy stadium that claimed 11 lives and said it shouldn't have happened.

His "didn't have any connection with the cricket stadium" was another clarification he provided.

“This incident shouldn’t have happened, it happened at the Cricket stadium. I don’t have any connection with the cricket stadium. It was an unfortunate incident, it shouldn’t have happened. Such an incident never happened after I became the CM. Prima facie, it seems to have happened because of the officials’ fault, so we have taken action. Everyone is in pain, including me,” Karnataka CM was quoted as saying by ANI.

“The Secretary and Treasurer of the KSCA invited me to the felicitation programme. It’s not a function we organised. It’s a function they organised, and I was merely invited. They additionally informed me that the Governor was to attend it. Hence, I attended the programme. Apart from that, I am not aware of anything else,” said Siddaramaiah.

Regarding this matter, the opposition is calling for the chief minister and deputy chief minister to resign. They have accused the government of improperly handling the celebrations of RCB's win.

The main opposition party, the BJP, has claimed that the Karnataka government did not have the interests of the people in mind and was just interested in leveraging RCB's first IPL title win as a photo opportunity.

The RCB team and the event management business were previously blamed by the KSCA, which said that their only duty was to secure the necessary government approvals. They claimed that RCB was responsible for controlling the stadium's entrance and crowd.

When asked about the claim that B Dayananda, the Bengaluru Police Commissioner at the time, was used as a scapegoat, he said that the intelligence chief had been replaced, and five officers had been disciplined. The Commissioner himself had not been suspended.