Citing the CBI booking former Uttarakhand Chief Minister M Harish Rawat in a horse-trading case as an example, JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda on Sunday said the same yardstick has to be applied in Karnataka too, following Chief Minister B S Yediyurappas 'confession' that BJP had orchestrated the defection of rebel MLAs.
"The Chief Minister himself has said it. It would have come to the notice of the Prime Minister and the President. We will have to see what decisions are taken," Gowda said.
Speaking to reporters in Hassan, he said the government came to power through several instances of "wrong conduct".
Pointing out that CBI has filed an FIR against Harish Rawat for alleged attempts of horse trading in 2016, which was caught on tape by a news channel editor, he said "the current central government did it (case against Rawat).
The same yardstick has to be followed here...let's wait and see what they will do."
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