Accusing the BJP of poaching on opposition MLAs to prove its majority in tomorrow's floor test, the Congress today released a purported audio conversation between mining baron Janardhana Reddy and a Congress MLA to back its claim.
In the audio, a man suspected to be Reddy is heard allegedly offering Chitradurga Rural Congress legislator Basanagouda Daddal a ministerial berth with "100 times growth."
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, however, said the audio was "utter falsehood."
Shivanagouda became minister by trusting mywords. Has he not made money and became strong enough to remain MLA till death. Didn't he grow because of me?"
Ugrappa also claimed that he has got the audio clip of conversations of BJP'snational leaders too, "which will be released at an appropriatetime."
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