The Income Tax raids that occurred in the early hours of Wednesday on Karnataka Energy Minister DK Shivakumar at multiple locations across the country did not come as a surprise to the man himself, as per a Times of India report.
According to party sources, he had seen it coming and was expecting the raids to happen.
While the I-T department says that a probe had been in the works for six months, Congress leaders are questioning the timing of the raids.
“The BJP is playing mind games and trying all strategies to win the assembly poll in Karnataka in 2018,” a Congress functionary said, while adding that the BJP was trying to poach influential persons in the Congress with key resources.