Karnataka Home Minister Agara Jnanendra Kumar justified the tweet of the DG of Bengaluru police where he mentioned the Mangaluru auto-rickshaw blast as a terrorist attack in the state.

KPCC president DK Shivkumar accused the BJP-led Karnataka government and DG of Bengaluru police of defaming Karnataka by tagging the auto-rickshaw blast in Mangaluru as an act of terror to which Agara Jnanendra replied that on the basis of the investigation and the evidences that we have it is clear that it was a terrorist attack.

He also condemned DK Shivakumar's statement by saying that he was doing politics to get the minority votes.