Posters ridiculing Karnataka govt spring up in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Hours before the legislature session was to commence on Monday, posters ridiculing the state government and levelling corruption allegations against ministers were clandestinely erected in different parts of Bengaluru.
The posters resembled film ones and had text in Kannada. One line read ‘Rs 2,000 crore looted; story of state government which pushed state into hardship’, an obvious reference to the government’s handling of the pandemic.
Top functionaries of opposition parties had levelled similar allegations against the BS Yediyurappa-led government over the purchase of N95 masks and personal protection equipment for Covid-19 warriors not long after the pandemic hit.
The posters also contained names sounding similar to that of a few ministers in the BJP government. They were seen on walls on prominent roads in the central business district.
Senior police officers said they have not registered a case as yet, but are on the lookout for the people who had pasted the posters. “These posters were pasted after midnight on Sunday,” one officer said. “We will collect CCTV footage installed at various traffic junctions near the places where these posters have come up and trace the culprits soon.”