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Bengaluru, Apr 29: Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly R Ashoka on Monday criticised the ruling Congress party for holding protests what they termed as “meagre” release of drought relief funds by the Centre to approach the Supreme Court and hoped that the government gets hauled up.

Addressing media persons in Bengaluru, he said Siddaramaiah regime’s claims that the Centre has released less than a quarter of the request from Karnataka towards drought relief and pointed out that it was done as per the norms and not just on the demand from the State.

The government is free to approach the apex court and get pulled up, he said and pointed out that the Narendra Modi regime has released the maximum quantum of assistance to the State as compared to the UPA.

Answering questions on the alleged sex scandal involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and nephew of JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, Ashoka pointed out that Kumaraswamy himself has clarified that “all are equal before the law and the guilty must be punished.”

The State government has constituted a SIT to probe the episode and said it is left to the government to take further action, he said.

The BJP leader expressed his condolences on the demise of senior leader V Srinivas Prasad and described him as a committed leader.