The Congress leaders today claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was planning to assassinate party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and his family.
Congress party leaders played an audio clip at a press briefing in Bengaluru, claiming that the BJP candidate from Chittapur Manikanta Rathod used abusive language for Kharge and could be heard talking about eliminating him and his family.
“Plotting to assassinate the president of Congress Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, his wife and his children is not something that anybody should brush aside,” Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said.
“And it’s not an ordinary person. It is the blue-eyed boy, the Chittapur BJP candidate whose track record you know better than me, of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Basavaraj Bommai.”
“I know the prime minister will remain mute, and so will Karnataka police and the Election Commission of India. But people of Karnataka will not remain mute and will give a befitting reply.”
Congress media and publicity department head Pawan Khera was also present at the party briefing in Bengaluru.
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