Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state President DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said that his loyalty to the Gandhi family was akin to that of a “devotee to god”, and apologised for singing the RSS anthem in the Assembly, saying that he would “die as a Congressman”. The apology comes following criticism, especially from within his party, after he sang the RSS anthem in the state Assembly.Speaking to the media at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Shivakumar said, “During the discussion on the stampede tragedy in the recently concluded Monsoon Assembly session, I sang a few lines of the RSS anthem to pull the leg of the Leader of Opposition, R. Ashoka. That was my only intention. I did not mean it otherwise, nor was it to praise them.”