Karnataka Congress workers ’cleansed and purified’ Vidhana Soudha premises with cow urine

With the Congress party sweeping the Karnataka Assembly elections and formed the government, party workers on 22 may "cleansed and purified" the premises of the Vidhana Soudha with cow urine, saying 'corrupt BJP rule ended'.

Earlier in January this year, Congress Karnataka president DK Shivakumar, who took oath as the deputy chief minister on May 20, had said that it was time to 'cleanse' the Vidhana Soudha (Assembly) with cow urine.

"We will come up with some details to clean the Vidhan Soudha. I also have some ganjala (cow urine) for purification...," Shivakumar had said. He had then alleged that the Assembly had been 'polluted by corruption during the BJP's rule', reported India Today.

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Karnataka Congress came up with a bilinugual ‘corruption rate card’ on 5 May which pointed out various ‘scams’ done by the then ruling BJP government. It was released in both English and Kannada, where Congress alleged that the ruling BJP government had looted ₹1,50,000 crore were in power in the state.

Congress even mentioned that he cost of the CM is ₹2,500 crore and a ministerial post costs ₹500 crore. The ‘corruption rate card’ had referred BJP’s ‘double-engine government’ as the ‘trouble-engine government’.

It read, as quoted by India Today, “The government demands different deals. It begins with a 30 per cent commission for the mutt grants, 40 per cent for road contracts and goes up to 75 per cent for the Covid-19 supplies.”

In the recently held Assembly polls, Congress won 135 seats in Karnataka, where Siddarmaiah took oath as the Chief Minister for the second time, and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar as his deputy. Apart from that, atleast eight other Congress leaders were sworn in as cabinet ministers.