Ballary, Oct 23: "If I comment anything on MLA Sriramulu, he passes comments against the entire community. He says that I have insulted the Nayaka Community. Is abusing me equal to abusing entire community? " former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah questioned.

Speaking at an election rally at Sandur here on Wednesday, former CM Siddaramaiah strongly asked: "Mr. Sriramulu, you must tell what are your contributions to the Nayaka community."

"When I had come to Sandur while I was opposition leader, the Gali Janardhan Reddy group sent gundas. The police officers, fearing the Reddy brothers, did not come with us," alleged Siddaramaiah.

When I came to Sandur, people here were living in fear. Also, there was no place to conduct a public programme. Janardhan Reddy and Sriramulu do not know about article 371 (J). But they know the criminal laws, and what is wrong in telling this? Siddaramaiah asked.



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Ranipet (Tamil Nadu) (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was being "controlled" by US President Donald Trump and that the PM wanted the AIADMK to capture power so that he could control Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.

Also, he claimed that the prime minister "handed out our energy security and gave away our data, besides selling our farmers and small and medium industries."

"You saw yesterday (in Parliament) the face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi completely lacking confidence," Rahul said on the delimitation bill.

"He (PM) could not even face the opposition. He was sitting sideways. And the reason is, he is controlled by the United States. He signed the India-US deal that sold our country out," Rahul said while addressing an election rally here.

He further said, "Today, if Donald Trump tells Modi to jump, Modi jumps. If Donald Trump tells Modi to lie down, Modi lies down. Why? Because Donald Trump controls Modi fully. How does he control him? He controls through the Epstein files. He controls him because he knows Modi's financial systems and understands Modi's link with Adani," the Congress leader alleged.

Just as he was being controlled by Trump, Modi wanted to do the same to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu. "That is why he wants to put AIADMK in power in TN," Rahul said.

The Union government had rejected references to PM Modi in the latest Jeffrey Epstein case files, describing it as “little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal that deserves to be dismissed with the utmost contempt”.