BENGALURU: On Wednesday, an Election commission squad stopped Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumarswamy’s SUV to conduct a regular check. The Election Commission squad stopped the Chief Minister's SUV on the highway while he was on going to Hassan. CM Kumaraswamy was sitting in the front passenger seat. These days Kumaraswamy sought the Election Commission's intervention to end the Income Tax department raids on persons allegedly associated with the ruling Janata Dal-Secular and Congress.

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On Saturday Kumaraswamy took to his twitter and said“IT officials continued their raid. They raided the rice and sugar mills run by Congress and JDS workers till 4 am today and put spy cams on their premises. Disguising themselves as railway officials, they borrowed vehicles and are now staying at CFTRI Mysuru (sic),” he tweeted. He writes a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer here and said “As IT officials continue to raid those associated with our allies, I appeal to the poll panel to direct the tax department to stop the searches being carried under pressure from the Modi government,” he said. 

"I have got a piece of specific information that some 200 to 300 CRPF sleuths have arrived from various parts of the country. They will be ferried from the airport to the city. They have been brought to Bengaluru from other states to carry out income tax raids in Karnataka," he added.  In a pre-dawn swoop Thursday, I-T sleuths carried out coordinated raids across the state including Bengaluru, Ramanagara, Kanakapura, Mandya, Mysuru, Hassan and Shivamogga. Income Tax officials have been carrying out a series of tax raids on properties of JD-S and Congress members and those related to them.

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