Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday likened Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders with "loose cannons" and warned that they could not make irresponsible comments and get away with it.
Speaking on a possible rollback on the hijab ban in Karnataka, Priyank Kharge, who has been inducted into Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's cabinet as a Minister but is yet to be allocated a portfolio, today said that the party will review and if necessary reject any bill that is not in favour of the people or is unconstitutional.
"BJP has become loose cannons. They have lost the connect between their tongue and their brain. They don't think before they speak...They think they can get away with it. That is not going to happen anymore in Karnataka," Kharge, who is also the son of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said.
The Congress leader who is in Delhi today was responding to BJP leader and former State minister C N Ashwath Narayan's remarks this February ahead of the Assembly elections in the State in which he had purportedly said that Karanataka chief minister Siddaramaiah should be "finished off" like the erstwhile Mysuru Tipu Sultan.