India, Nov. 2 -- Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge on Monday alleged that a union minister was pressurising the central government for IT and ED action against him and his Cabinet colleagues.

Without naming the union minister, he said the former was using the ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) recruitment process as a "political cover" to seek action against him and other state ministers.

"Whispers in Delhi's corridors of power are that a union minister is desperately pressuring Modi Sarkar to weaponise the IT and ED against my Cabinet colleagues and me, using the KPSC investigation as political cover," Kharge said in a post on 'X'.

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