Audio tape row: BSY admits he met Gurmitkal MLA’s son

Team Udayavani, Feb 10, 2019, 9:35 AM IST

Hubballi: BJP State President BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday admitted that the voice in the audio clip released by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy is his and that he met Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) MLA Naganagowda’s son Sharanagouda at the inspection bungalow in Devdurg.

Addressing presspersons at Hubballi Airport Yeddyurappa said that it was true that Sharanagouda had come to speak to him.

However, Yeddyurappa claimed that the audio clip released by Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy had been edited according to convenience. 

Further clarifying on his statement he had made that he will retire from politics if the accusation made by Kumaraswamy was true he said “I said that I never mentioned offering Rs 50 crore to the Honourable Speaker. If this accusation is proved I said I will retire from politics,”

Earlier, Yeddyurappa had claimed that the audio clip was fake and that he had not met anyone.