Bengaluru, May 12 -- Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Tuesday shut questions from BJP around the delay in the naming of Keralam Chief Minister as the deadlock continues following the United Democratic Front's sweeping victory in the assembly elections, over a week ago, calling the alliance's "internal matter."

Speaking with ANI, he slammed the BJP for raising questions on the matter, pointing that the party took "a month to make a CM in Karnataka."

"Why is BJP so interested in it? They took more than a month to make a CM in Karnataka. It is our internal matter," Kharge said.

This comes after BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla took a jibe at the Congress party, which he said seemed to have a plan "to give five Chief Minist...