“Was there no corruption in Karnataka during the Congress regime?” said former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda amid a clash between the ruling BJP and Congress over the demand for commission to clear bills related to projects sanctioned by the State Government.
Speaking to reporters in Beechanahalli in H D Kote after participating in the Janata Jaladhare programme of the JD(S) at Kabini reservoir, Mr Gowda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his poll rallies in Karnataka, had called the then Siddaramaiah-led government as ‘10 per cent’ government.
Mr Gowda said he would not want to speak about corruption now. “In the present-day scenario, one can do politics only with money. That is how bad it is. Who is honest?” He claimed that nobody could point a finger of corruption against him.
