Karnataka Cooperation Minister and senior Congress leader KN Rajanna resigned from his cabinet post on Monday, just hours after his comments on alleged electoral roll irregularities stirred a political storm within the party.

The remarks from Rajanna came on Sunday (August 10) in Tumakuru, where he criticised Rahul Gandhi's allegations of vote theft. "One should not speak like that... When was the voter list prepared? This voter list was made during the Congress regime... Why didn’t anyone speak up at that time? Why were the eyes closed? If I speak further now, things will get worse. It is true that the BJP has engaged in wrongdoing; there's no denying in that. But all this happened right before our eyes... This is also something for us to think about... We will have to be even more vigilant in the future."