Highlights
- Many Congress leaders in Karnataka were detained in Bengaluru over 'PayCM' posters across city
- Congress' 'PayCM' campaign is targeted against Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai
- Congress claims BJP "extracted 40% commission from builders, contractors."
Many Congress leaders in Karnataka, including chief DK Shivakumar, BK Hariprasad, and LoP Siddaramaiah were detained in Bengaluru on Friday over 'PayCM' posters across the city.
The Congress' 'PayCM' campaign is targeted against Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai, who Congress claims had "extracted 40% commission from builders, contractors." The grand old party charged the ruling BJP with corruption in awarding public contracts and government recruitment.
Bommai's face figures in the middle of the QR code with the message "40 % accepted here".
The contractors' body had recently levelled bribery charges that contractors had to pay a 40 per cent commission to get public works contracts, a charge strongly denied by the government.
Soon after the matter came to the notice of the authorities, these posters in public places were removed. The BJP alleged that this was the handiwork of Congress.
Videos of police removing the posters have gone viral on social media platforms.
