Tasking a jibe at the state congress leadership, Gowda claimed that the leaders are "playing kabbadi," with even Mallikarjun Kharge powerless to stop it, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is extending all help to farmers.
Amid the 'widening' rift between the former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah and the state Congress chief DK Shivakumar, the latter said that this was only a "political strategy" of the party.