Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Priyank Kharge has said that he has received a threat letter at his office in the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru.
Addressing a press conference at the Congress office here on Thursday, Mr. Kharge read out some paragraphs of the letter written in Kannada which contained unparliamentary and abusive words against him and further, extended a threat to his life.
He, however, brushed aside the idea of police protection and said that it is not the first time that he has received such threats. Last year, a recording of a phone call went viral in which BJP leader Manikanth Rathod is supposedly speaking of finishing off the Kharge family. Irony is that the BJP-led government did not take any action against the accused, Mr. Kharge said and added that this time, the BJP leaders seem to want to conduct elections over his body.
