Mangaluru : Senior party leader Janardhan Poojary’s close aide Harikrishna Bantwal condemned minister Ramanatah Rai to criticizing senior party leaders and youth congress members. Rai must expulsion from the district in-charge minister as well from Congress.

Speaking the press on Wednesday June 28, Harikrishna Bantwal said, Rai threatened the youth leaders several times for being close to Poojary. Kallige Taranath Shetty was also threatened by Rai for the same reason, he said.

Ramanath Rai think, he is only leader for congress, other workers his slaves. He is a mafia leader of the Congress party and many of Poojary followers have become the target of his insults. The state leadership to expel Rai from all posts in the Congress and the ministry,” he urged.

He also recalled the recent incident that, in a wedding party in Suratkal, Ramanath Rai abused former district Youth Congress president Arun Coelho and former state secretary of Youth Congress Tejaswini Raj as well as Poojary. For votes and money he is engaged in disturbing communal harmony, he said.