Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah confirmed that an FIR has been registered for 'threatening' Congress MLAs in connection with the RS elections.
An FIR has been registered against the JD(S) Rajya Sabha candidate in Karnataka, D Kupendra Reddy, and his aides. A FIR was registered at the Vidhana Soudha police station in Bengaluru, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday, 27 February.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah too confirmed that an FIR has been registered for “threatening” the Congress MLAs in connection with the Rajya Sabha elections.
“The Congress leaders not only spoke about allurement and threat to their MLAs time and again but also registered an FIR against Kupendra Reddy and his aides,” Kumaraswamy told reporters.
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