Belagavi, June 30: The news of Congress MLAs joining hands with BJP is a lie. On the contrary, BJP MLAs are contacting us, said minister Jarkiholi on Saturday.

Speaking to the reporters at Suvarna Soudha, minister said that, no MLA from our party is joining BJP. Instead, MLAs of BJP are in our contact. High command will decided about them joining the party.

Reacting to the statement, congress do not encourage individual worship, by water resource minister D.K Shivakumar, Jarkiholi said that former CM Siddaramaiah is our leader. I and other MLAs had gone to Shantivana in Dharmasthala to know about his health condition.

Siddaramaiah has helped me and congress party a lot. Its our duty to remember him. How can meeting our leader be person worship. That is Shivakumar's personal view. I am the honest worker of congress party, he added.

Congress legislative party leader Siddaramaiah is not opposing the JDS-congress coalition government from presenting new budget. He only advised to continue the schemes introduced during his tenure.



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Johannesburg, Nov 15: India beat South Africa by 135 runs in the fourth and final T20 International to clinch series 3-1 here on Friday.

Opting to bat, India posted a massive 283 for 1, thanks to unbeaten centuries from Tilak Varma (120 not out off 47 balls) and Sanju Samson (109 not out off 56 balls), and then bowled South Africa out for 148 in 18.2 overs.

Tristan Stubbs top-scored for South Africa with 46 while David Miller contributed 36.

For India, pacer Arshdeep Singh was the most successful bowler with figures of 3/20 while Varun Chakravarthy (2/42) and Axar Patel (2/6) got two wickets each.

Hardik Pandya, Ramandeep Singh and Ravi Bishnoi got a wicket each.

Brief Scores:

India: 283 for 1 in 20 overs (Sanju Samson 109 not out, Tilak Varma 120 not out; Lutho Sipamla 1/58).

South Africa: 148 all out in 18.2 overs (Tristan Stubbs 46, David Miller 36; Arshdeep Singh 3/20).