Karnataka drama: PM authorised MLAs purchase, says Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: The BJP’s efforts to poach legislators from other parties has failed and democracy has won in Karnataka, a jubilant Congress said.

Addressing a hurriedly-called press conference, Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly, saying all kinds of tricks were tried to purchase Congress MLAs. 

A combative Mr Gandhi accused the Prime Minister of “directly authorising the purchase of MLAs in Karnataka” and went on to say: “So the idea that the Prime Minister spreads in the country that he is fighting corruption is a blatant lie, he is corruption.” 

Mr Gandhi added that Mr Modi’s model of leadership is that of a “dictator”.