The Congress party on Thursday staged a protest in Bengaluru against the raids by income tax department on Karnataka Power Minister D. K. Shivakumar.
The income tax department yesterday had conducted a raid at the residence of Karnataka Power Minister Shivakumar and a private resort in Bengaluru where 44 Congress lawmakers from Gujarat are staying.
The raid was also carried out at the residence of Shivakumar's father-in-law today.
The Congress had created a ruckus in both the Houses of Parliament after the I-T raid and alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Central Government was indulging in political witch-hunt just to defeat Congress candidate Ahmed Patel in Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat.
Raising the matter in Rajya Sabha, Congress leader Anand Sharma had said it is now becoming a trend of the Government to blatantly misuse powers of the state.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah dubbed I-T raids as 'undemocratic'.
However, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley denied that the IT raid has any links with Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat.