Bengaluru, Jan 28: “On one side, Kumaraswamy’s statement is saying everything is not fine in the coalition government and on the other side, it is a blackmailing strategy through AICC president Rahul Gandhi to keep the Congress leaders under control”, said BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa.

“Resignation statement of the Chief Minister is exposing the internal bickering within the coalition partners. The differences between Congress and JDS proved the statement of the Chief Minister.

The CM and the Congress leaders have been passing buck on us saying that the BJP has been doing ‘Operation Lotus’ in order to divert the attention of the people and it is a biggest strategy to cover-up the failures of the coalition government”, he said in a press statement.

Though there was severe drought in the state, the coalition government was sleeping. So, it was not bothering about the plights of the people. Though it was almost one month after a farmer’s suicide at Doddachellur village in Chitradurga district, no officer or elected representative have visited the house of the farmer, he said.

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New Delhi (PTI): AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, who has been accused by her party of being part of a conspiracy to frame Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a false case, on Sunday said her party colleagues once sought justice for Nirbhaya but today they are supporting a person accused of assaulting her.

She said if AAP leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who is in jail in connection with the Delhi excise police case, had been here "maybe things wouldn't have been so bad for me!"

Maliwal has alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar assaulted her on May 13 when she went to the CM's residence to meet him. The Aam Aadmi Party has trashed her allegations and claimed Maliwal was acting at the behest of the BJP to frame Kejriwal in a fake case.

Maliwal, who has been associated with the AAP since its inception more than 10 years ago, said on Sunday there was a time when "we all used to come out on the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya".

"Today, 12 years later, we have come out on the streets to save the accused (Bibhav Kumar) who made the CCTV footage disappear and formatted the phone? I wish they had used this much force for Manish Sisodia ji. Had he been here, maybe things wouldn't have been so bad for me!" she wrote.

Police have arrested Kumar in connection with the case.