Archive · 8 Oct 2026
Karnataka BJP Chief Challenges Shivakumar Over Jarkiholi Sting
Karnataka BJP leaders criticised Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar over comments about sting operations.
B.Y. Vijayendra asked him to explain who carried out an earlier sting operation involving Ramesh Jarkiholi.
Jarkiholi resigned as a minister after an alleged personal video was leaked.
Vijayendra also asked who helped the people involved and which lawyer represented them.
BJP MLA S.R. Vishwanath said the Chief Minister should speak with dignity.
Vishwanath alleged that the government was using the sting-operation issue to distract people from other problems.
He named drought, inflation and allegations about the NICE project.
These claims were made by the BJP leaders and were not independently established in the report.
The dispute is part of a wider political confrontation between the Congress and BJP in Karnataka.
B.Y. Vijayendra asked Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to identify who conducted the sting operation involving Ramesh Jarkiholi.
Vijayendra also questioned who protected those involved and which lawyer represented them before later becoming Additional Advocate General.
Jarkiholi resigned as a minister after an alleged personal video was leaked during the previous BJP government.
BJP MLA S.R. Vishwanath criticised Shivakumar’s remarks and alleged they could divert attention from drought, inflation and NICE project allegations.
The comments came amid a political dispute between Karnataka’s Congress and BJP over alleged sting operations and electoral-roll revision.
- Who
- Karnataka BJP President B.Y. Vijayendra and BJP MLA S.R. Vishwanath criticised Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar.
- What
- Vijayendra asked who conducted and protected those involved in the sting operation linked to Ramesh Jarkiholi; Vishwanath also criticised Shivakumar’s remarks.
- When
- Vijayendra spoke on Thursday; the report describes the comments as part of an ongoing political confrontation.
- Where
- Vijayendra spoke to the media in Bagalkot; Vishwanath commented in Bengaluru.
- Why
- The BJP leaders were responding to Shivakumar’s recent remarks about alleged attempts to conduct sting operations against Congress ministers and leaders.
- BJP state president
- B.Y. Vijayendra
- Chief Minister
- D.K. Shivakumar
- Former minister at the centre of the earlier case
- Ramesh Jarkiholi
- Other BJP leader quoted
- MLA S.R. Vishwanath
- Earlier controversy
- Jarkiholi resigned after an alleged personal video was leaked during the previous BJP government.
- Other issues raised by Vishwanath
- Drought, inflation and allegations concerning the NICE project.
- Wider dispute
- Congress and BJP are confronting each other over alleged sting operations and the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.