Bengaluru, July 12 -- To understand commuter inconvenience and irregularities in ticketing practices, the Karnataka Transport Minister travelled on a BMTC bus under a disguise, only to be told to get off by the conductor as he failed to produce a Rs 12 change.

On Saturday, July 11, Minister Byrathi Suresh boarded a bus from Bhoopasandra to Hebbal without revealing his identity. When it was his time to pay the ticket, he handed over Rs 100 note to the conductor instead of Rs 12/-.

The conductor told the passenger that he did not have sufficient change and insisted that he first provide Rs 12.

When Suresh replied that he did not have any smaller denomination, the conductor allegedly asked him to deboard.

He removed his face mask and dis...