Slamming state minister Anand Singh and other turncoats for switching parties, Leader of the Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Council Hariprasad compared them with "prostitutes".
Some news reports have mentioned sting Dharme Gowda's driver that he was upset after the incident of manhandling in the Karnataka Legislative Council on December 15.
Recently, JD(S) had filed an FIR against senior journalist Vishweshwar Bhat for publishing an article on Karnataka CM H D Kumaraswamy’s son, Nikhil Kumaraswamy
The IT raid at Hassan and Mandya comes at the backdrop of a recent audio clip that had gone viral, in which two people allegedly belonging to JDS were discussing strategies to win the Mandya Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP has challenged the Chief Minister Kumaraswamy to send his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy to join the armed forces rather than making him the candidate of the Lok Sabha elections.