Kumaraswamy to his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu, from leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress to Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee, leaders kept referring to the Karnataka crisis. Two Congress MLAs are incommunicado. “You are offering crores and crores and crores to buy MLAs in Karnataka to topple a stable government, duly elected by the people there. Andhra Pradesh chief minister Naidu also pointed at Karnataka to condemn the BJP. Kharge accused the BJP of trying to intimidate Congress MLAs in Karnataka into defecting.

Source: The Telegraph January 19, 2019 21:33 UTC