Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said the Speaker will decide, amid speculations that the life size portrait of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar that was unveiled inside the Assembly chamber at the 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha' here, along with several national icons, during the previous BJP government's regime, will be removed.

The unveiling of Savarkar's portrait in December, 2022, had drawn criticism from the then opposition -- Congress -- which had alleged that it was a unilateral decision, keeping them in the dark.