Bengaluru, May 17 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar lashed out at Union Minister and JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy, accusing him and his family of running a 'real estate racket'. The Deputy Chief Minister stated that Kumaraswamy's brother used the "PRR road as a pretext to run a real estate racket".

DK Shivakumar further claimed that a major political family in the state accumulated vast properties through manipulative land deals. The DCM said, "his family had amassed wealth through real estate."

Replying to reporters' questions at the National Public School in Horamavu, he said, "Kumaraswamy's brother intimidated people and got properties registered in his name along the PRR road stretch. Kumaraswamy is just daydreaming. Yes...