BENGALURU: The newest politician to join the fray of leaders who compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to German Dictator Adolf Hitler is Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Furious over the recent Income Tax (I-T) raids on his party men and a top I-T official seeking action against him, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi "worse than Hitler".

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"Modi is a dictator -- a man worse than Hitler. He is the worst prime minister who brought a bill to confiscate the personal properties of individuals," he told his supporters on Tuesday night. The Janata Dal (United) leader is apparently upset over the recent statewide I-T crackdown on his party men and others and the state Income Tax Commissioner's letter to the Election Commission (EC) seeking legal action against him and the Congress and JD(S) functionaries who protested against the action outside the I-T department here.

Mr. Kumaraswamy had led the protest outside the IT office on Queen's Road in Bengaluru following the raids, alleging that the Modi government was using central agencies to target the opposition as part of its politics of vendetta. "Where is Balakrishnan, who sent notices to us?," the chief minister asked, adding that the I-T official sent 300 people to raid the premises of certain contractors from Hassan, Mysuru, and Mandya, who belonged to the JD(S).

Kumaraswamy sought to know why only the contractors of Mandya, Mysuru, and Hassan were targeted. "He is threatening us. He has written a three-page letter to the EC," he said. Just a few days prior to this, the Trinamool supremo had called PM Modi the "uncle of Hitler" at an election rally in Bengal's Cooch Behar.

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