Yeddy Dairies: BJP criticizes Congress

The Bharatiya Janata Party rejected the bribery charge levelled by the Congress, which referred to a media report to allege that the top leadership of the ruling party was paid a bribe of Rs 1,800 crore.

New Delhi: Days ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, a political controversy erupted on Friday after a media report titled 'The Yeddy Diaries' published by news magazine 'The Caravan' alleged that former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa paid Rs 1,800 crore to some top BJP leaders to induct Yeddyurappa as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the second term.

Union Law Minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad followed up the counter-attack on Congress. He slammed the Congress for spreading "a web of lies" and said the Congress is "desperate and has lost its balance".

"Karnataka Congress leader D. Shivakumar has been involved in such allegations in the past and he made his claims on the basis of a sheet of paper. The Income Tax Department department asked him if he had the original copy of the paper, but he could not present it," he said.