The Congress candidate further said, "Our fight is against the 'gundaraj' in this city, against the corruption that has spread. We are not fighting against a candidate, we are fighting for the development here."
A Bajrang Dal leader and activist has filed a complaint against Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday for his controversial statements on Veer Savarkar.
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao's wife Tabassum Rao filed a complaint with the state women's commission against the social media cell of the BJP's Karnataka unit for alleged derogatory comments against her in a social media post.
After Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao made a controversial statement on Thursday, there was a flood of political reactions criticising his remarks against Veer Savarkar.
Reacting to the row over Congress leader and Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao's claim that Veer Savarkar used to consume beef despite being a Chitpavan brahmin, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said that it was better to live in the present and see how future can be improve
Karnataka Congress leader Nagaraj Yadav on Thursday defended Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao's remarks on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and said that Rao believes in the secular fabrics of the country and the BJP is making a political statement to keep things alive.
Earlier on Wednesday, Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said that Savarkar's fundamentalist ideology was very different from the Indian culture, despite him being a nationalist and that it wouldn't be Savarkar's argument but Mahatma Gandhi's that should win in the country.
Speaking to ANI on Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao's statement, BJP MP Anurag Thakur said, "Congress is a factory of lies. And when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi goes around the world and tells lies and defames India, then his party will also not be left behind in insulting India's freedo
Following Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao's statement on Veer Savarkar's ideology and claims of him "consuming beef" despite being a Chitpavan brahmin, Savarkar's grandson, as well as Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, came down heavily at Rao and the Congress on Thursday.
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao came down heavily on Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy and said that he had not been doing any constructive work, following Kumaraswamy's demand for the resignation of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamiah in the alleged MUDA land scam.
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said that the "true way" to counter Savarkar's fundamentalism was Gandhi's democratic principles and his approach.
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday said that Vinayak Savarkar's fundamentalist ideology was very different from the Indian culture, despite him being a nationalist and that it wouldn't be Savarkar's argument but Mahatma Gandhi's that should win in the country.