: BJP General Secretary Muralidhar Rao Tuesday said withdrawal of support to the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka by two independent MLAs was an offshoot of internalbickerings among Congress leaders, mainly D K Shivakumar.
"The withdrawal of support by two independent MLAs is the result of internal bickerings among Congress leaders.
Particularly, D K Shivakumar is a problem. He basically is precipitating the problem, but levelling charges against the BJP," he told PTI over phone.
Rao, also in-charge of BJP affairs in Karnataka, stated this when asked to comment on the MLAs -R Shankar and H Nagesh -withdrawing support amid charges that BJP was engineering defections to topple the H D Kumaraswamy government.
Attacking Shivakumar, Rao said he was the main culprit for the fresh political turbulence as he wanted to project himself as the 'true loyal Congress leader.'
I cannot immediatelycomment because I do not know the gravity of the situation in Karnataka,"