Bengaluru, Nov. 11 -- Karnataka's ethanol-blending controversy took a sharper political turn on Wednesday, with Chief Minister DK Shivakumar alleging that ethanol content in petrol had reached 30 per cent in some instances against the prescribed 20 per cent, while Leader of Opposition R Ashoka countered by accusing the state's Food and Civil Supplies Minister Rizwan Arshad of being linked to the alleged fuel adulteration.
The war of words between the Congress government and the BJP has intensified amid conflicting test results on ethanol content in petrol, with the state demanding independent verification and the opposition questioning the credibility of its allegations.
Transport operators, meanwhile, have sought an impartial investigati...