As the Congress upped its ante on corruption charges against the ruling BJP and held protests in various parts of the State, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai at the party’s State executive meeting that began on Saturday in Hosapete described the principal Opposition party as a “river of corruption” and said it would sink in the 2023 Assembly elections.
At the launch of the two-day meeting, he said the Congress was the fountainhead of corruption in the country. “Cases reported during the Congress rule in the State are still alive. Go to whichever department and you will find one or the other case. You talk volumes about the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes on the one hand but misappropriated funds meant for these deprived communities on the other. The truth will come out and I have asked Congress leaders to be ready to face it,” Mr. Bommai said.
“Congress leaders are in a state of shock after the results of the Assembly elections of the five States were announced,” he said, adding that they “did not know what to do”.
