Yamini C S | Edited by Swati Bhasin
Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday hit out on the Congress, and extra significantly on the “pretend Gandhis”, a day after Rahul Gandhi had introduced up the “40 per cent fee” controversy amid the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Leaders of each the BJP and the Congress have been stepping up assaults on one another within the race as much as the meeting polls within the state.
The chief minister was addressing the media on the event of Gandhi Jayanti when he slammed social gathering leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and D Ok Shivakumar for being out on bail and alleged that the state was an “ATM” for the grand previous social gathering. “Immediately is Gandhi Jayanti, why ought to I discuss pretend Gandhis? The entire Congress social gathering is out on bail – Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and D Ok Shivakumar are out on bail. Karnataka was an ATM for the Congress social gathering, now it is gone,” he was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
Celebration stalwart D Ok Shivakumar responded to the chief minister’s assertion, saying, “Sure, I am on bail. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are additionally on bail. They’ve (BJP) dozens who’re on bail. Yediyurappa has no case towards him? Bommai registered instances towards me. Let him ship me to Parappana Agrahara (Central Jail), I am going to take some relaxation.”
Bommai’s assertion comes after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi focused the ruling BJP authorities within the state by mentioning the “40 per cent fee” controversy on Saturday as he led the social gathering’s Bharat Jodo Yatra for the second day in Karnataka. The controversy pertains to claims by contractors {that a} hefty fee needed to be paid to authorities officers for getting any job achieved.
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In the meantime, Rahul resumed the third day of the mass contact programme within the southern state on Sunday, and supplied tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at an occasion in Badanavalu of Mysuru on the 153rd beginning anniversary of the ‘Father of the Nation’.
READ | Rahul Gandhi provides floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi in Mysuru amid Bharat Jodo Yatra
The ruling BJP and its opposition Congress have additionally been locked in a stand-off with one another in poll-bound Karnataka, over the ‘PayCM’ posters, which featured the chief minister, meant to additional the allegations over corruption in most of the authorities’s departments.