Following the two-day visit to Karnataka BJP president Amit Shah in his address misspoke today and said that “if there were ever a competition for the most corrupt government then the (BJP’s) Yeddyurappa government would come first”.
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Shah wasn’t poking fun, but he didn’t mean to utter that either about BS Yeddyurappa (BSY), who is the BJP’s candidate for chief minister in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The BJP president simply told its ministerial candidate is corrupt.
Shah said this at a press conference which was held in Bengaluru, BSY – who was earlier CM of Karnataka – and sitting to Shah’s right, leaned over to him, probably to correct him. Then Shah made corrections what he said – that he meant “Siddaramaiah would come first in a competition for the most corrupt government” – but the smash up had occurred.
The Congress couldn’t pass up this opportunity to denounce Shah and it had a field day doing so.
“Who knew Amit Shah could also speak the truth- we all concur with you Amit ji BSY-BJP is the most corrupt!” tweeted Divya Spandana of the Karnataka unit member of the Congress party.
Spandana said in another tweet that this wasn’t the first time Shah misspoke about BSY.
“This isn’t the first time btw- what exactly are Amit Shah’s feelings towards Yeddyurappa? All are not good in the hood,” she said in the tweet with attaching clip of another time when Shah misspoke.
