Bengaluru, Oct. 26 -- Launching a multifaceted attack on the ruling Congress government in Karnataka, Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly R Ashoka on Monday accused the administration of evading governance, alleging that it shifted blame onto the Centre over sugarcane farmers' issues, turned the historic Mysuru Dasara into an "ostentatious photo-shoot show," and was actively attempting to bury the investigation into the alleged sting operation against the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah.

Addressing the reporters, Ashoka criticised the administration's delayed response to agrarian distress, stating that the Congress government should have listened to the grievances of sugarcane farmers right from the beginning ...