Kalaburagi, Feb. 9 -- Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for politicising the metro fare hike issue, saying that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has already written to Centre, which has an equal stake in Bengaluru's 'Namma Metro', to not increase the prices.

"Unnecessarily the BJP people want to make politics out of everything. The metro is run by the State and Central Govt and it is a separate corporation. CM has already written to the Government of India to not increase the fare. Now, Tejasvi Surya is saying that they are not going to increase, so let there be an official order, then we will see," the Karnataka minister told reporters here.

Rao also spoke on the CM change issue, saying that th...