Anant Kumar Hegde also shared a video of the incident claiming that this could have been done purposefully and also suspected a “bigger nexus”.
One of the cars from the convoy of Union Cabinet Minister Anant Kumar Hegde was hit by a truck in Karnataka’s Halgeri late Tuesday night. Though the Union Minister escaped the incident and did not suffer any injuries, few people in the car suffered severe shoulder incident.
A deliberate attempt on my life seems to have been executed just now. A truck on NH, near Halageri in Ranebennur taluk of Haveri district has hit my escort vehicle which tried to hit my vehicle in the first instance. Since our vehicle was in top speed we escaped the hit. pic.twitter.com/2w8zzq26UU
— Anantkumar Hegde (@AnantkumarH) April 17, 2018
However our support staff in the escort vehicle has suffered severe injuries in the form of shoulder fracture. pic.twitter.com/aMm16rNo9r
— Anantkumar Hegde (@AnantkumarH) April 17, 2018
However, Anant Kumar Hegde has suspected a “conspiracy” behind the accident. Hegde has alleged that “a deliberate attempt on his life seems to have been executed”. According to Hegde, a truck on National Highway, near Halageri in Ranebennur taluk of Haveri district hit his escort vehicle. He further alleged that the truck first tried to hit his vehicle but could not do so since his car was in top speed.
Hegde said that the vehicle was parked right in the road horizontally and was in the wrong direction. “As soon as our convoy approached he has driven in great speed and had tried hitting our car. As our car was running in good speed we passed away before he could ram us,” Hegde alleged.
But unfortunately, our escort vehicle running behind us got hit and one of our staff has been injured seriously with shoulder fracture. The driver named Naser has been caught hold by the localites and seems to be normal without any alcholic hangover. pic.twitter.com/2LJIHVVBLw
— Anantkumar Hegde (@AnantkumarH) April 17, 2018
The truck driver Naseer was held by the locals soon after the accident took place and handed over to the police. Hegde said that the driver was not inebriated.
Anant Kumar Hegde also shared a video of the incident claiming that this could have been done purposefully. He also suspected a “bigger nexus” behind this incident and asked the police to take the case seriously in “spilling the truth out” from the truck driver.
I urge the police to take the case seriously in spilling the truth out from this guy named Nasir. There might be a bigger nexus behind this incident and am sure Police would expose all of them. pic.twitter.com/CXQuEZKMqD
— Anantkumar Hegde (@AnantkumarH) April 17, 2018
According to a news agency, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said that the police is investigating this whole issue. The full report about this will be sought later.
However, this incident has added to the already heated political discourse in Karnataka ahead of Assembly elections scheduled on May 12.
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