The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday questioned the presence of Congress National General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala at a meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar with officials of the state government and BBMP at a private hotel.
The BJP shared a photograph of the meeting on its Twitter handle in which Surjewala is sitting next to Shivakumar in a meeting where Karnataka government's Additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Singh, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike's Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, and other government officers were present.
The photograph showed that Energy Minister K J George, Housing Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, and Shivaji Nagar MLA Rizwan Arshad were also present there.
According to the BJP Karnataka unit, the meeting took place in a private five-star hotel.
"What is the secret of #ATMSarkara?' ATMSarkara's clandestine meeting at Shangri-La Hotel, Bengaluru? What has Congress state in-charge Randeep Surjewala to do with the senior BBMP officials, who have no official relationship with either the state government or BBMP? Is this an 85 per cent deal-fixing meeting? Please answer @Siddaramaiah Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and @DKShivakumar D K Shivakumar," the BJP tweeted.
There was no immediate reaction from either the Congress state unit or Surjewala.
