Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday accused Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa of putting pressure on the State police to not allow him to meet rebel party MLAs from Madhya Pradesh staying here.
Singh said he was confident of taking back most of the legislators if he gets an opportunity to personally talk to them. Accusing the BJP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah of “scripting and executing” the ongoing political crisis in the central Indian state, he appealed to the rebel legislators not to take any step that will favour the JP Nadda-led party.
“I have full sympathy with the DGP Karnataka as he is under tremendous pressure, and my allegation is that the pressure is from the Chief Minister of Karnataka Yediyurappa.
I charge Yediyurappa that he has pressurised the DGP, not to allow me to meet my Congress legislators,” Singh said.
Speaking to reporters here, he alleged police were not allowing him to meet, talk or send letters to MLAs, who are his voters in the Rajya Sabha polls,scheduled for March 26.
Terming the developments as “power game” that the BJP has scripted in the country, Singh said it was “conceived authored and executed” by the party under Amit Shah.
“You people call it as operation lotus, it is nothing but operation money bag. There are huge sums of money, it happened in Karnataka in the past.
I don't know how many of the 22 MLAs have taken the money, so I'm not levelling charge against them, but I have the phone recording of ex-BJP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and ex-Minister Narottam Mishra offering money to Congress MLAs,” he said.
High drama had unfolded on Wednesday morning near the resort where rebel MLAs are staying as Singh staged a protest accusing the police of not allowing him to meet the legislators.