A war of words broke out between the Congress and BJP-JDS combine over visuals of people shouting Pakistan Zindabad after Naseer Hussain s victory. The government vowed not to go soft and the Congress launched a counter attack.
"The Minister of IT is resorting to desperate measures to gain the PM s attention, even at the expense of rupturing the state s social fabric, despite gaining everything from it. These kinds are the real anti-nationals and anti-Kannadigas," Kharge said, adding, "Karnataka s central government ministers seem to speak up solely to propagate misinformation, remaining silent when the state faces injustice."