Bengaluru: Senior BJP leader R Ashoka on Friday hit out at Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar accusing him of maintaining "silence" over Tamil Nadu Congress' warning that it would not allow even a single brick to be laid for the Mekedatu dam on river Cauvery.
Questioning whether Shivakumar was hiding out of fear of coalition politics in Tamil Nadu, the Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly challenged the CM to march to Chennai now and stage a hunger strike in front of the Tamil Nadu Congress office, if he had courage.