In Karnataka, every political party tries to project the other as more corrupt. Recently, the state’s Minister for Excise Renukacharya ridiculed former Prime Minister Deve Gowda’s accusation of corruption against the BJP saying, “Deve Gowda speaking against corruption is like the devil chanting the Bhagavad Gita.” At the same time, he also branded the Congress the grandfather of corruption and Janata Dal (S) as the mother of corruption.