Bengaluru: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar, on Tuesday, slammed the state government in a veiled comment terming the arrest of Congress leader and former Bengaluru Mayor Sampath Raj as ” their agenda and plan”.
It can be recalled that Raj, who was absconding so far, was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in the August 11 violence that broke out in Bengaluru.
Speaking about the arrest to the media, DKShi claimed that it is a clear message that the Congress leaders are being targetted.
“It is their agenda to do this, it is a clear message of targeting Congress leaders. They had planned to do this,” Shivakumar said, according to a report by Hindustan Times.
It can be recalled that earlier today, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai had praised Raj’s arrest as a major development that will lead to “exposure of the conspiracy and people behind it”.
Pointing out to the fact that Raj had been absconding, Bommai said that he would not have done so if he was innocent. “We have caught him. There will be further investigation,” he added.
(with ANI inputs)
