Chitradurga, Oct. 8 -- Karanataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Leader of Opposition in the state's Legislative Assembly, R Ashoka, on Wednesday, slammed the Congress for demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Comissioner Gyanesh Kumar. It is not possible to remove the chairman of the Election Commission easily, he said.

There has to be a lengthy discussion in Parliament, a majority has to be established, and the matter has to go before the President. Just because I shout on the street that corruption has increased, Chief Minister DK Shivakumar cannot be removed, Ashoka said.

He was speaking after taking part in the Seva Jyoti Yatra programme organised by the BJP to mark 25 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's publ...