Hubballi, May 6 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday mentioned an investigation can be performed to seek out out the authenticity of the audio recording relating to the alleged plot to kill Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge and his household. Speaking to reporters right here, he mentioned, “I do not know about the audio. That will be investigated. We will take it seriously and get it investigated.”
Bommai was reacting to the cost of the Congress General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, who alleged that an assassination plot has been hatched to ‘wipe out’ Kharge, his spouse and his total household by a BJP candidate,
Surjewala additionally shared an alleged audio recording of the BJP candidate from Chittapur constituency in Kalaburagi district Manikanta Rathod, wherein he’s heard purportedly saying in Kannada that he’ll wipe out ‘Kharge, his spouse and kids’.
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Rathod rejected the costs outright and mentioned, “It is all a lie. They are playing some fake audio. The Congress is leveling baseless allegations fearing defeat.”
Addressing a press convention, Surjewala mentioned that “Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge, his wife, and his entire family as being hatched by the BJP leaders. There can be nothing more serious than that”.
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He added that “the assassination plots have entered the electoral discourse of Karnataka and this was the lowest political discourse anyone can stoop to”.
“Intimidated by the all-round blessings of Kannadigas being showered on the Congress party and facing a complete rout in the ensuing Karnataka election, the BJP leaders are now hatching a plot to murder Sri Mallikarjun Kharge as also his family members,” Surjewala alleged.
He additionally alleged the Chittapur candidate is a “blue eyed boy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai”.
