Bengaluru, March 12 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday hit back at the BJP for raising the issue of the guarantee implementation committee in the Assembly.

"We formed the guarantee implementation committee as soon as we came to power. It has been about one and a half years since it was formed. Did the BJP wake up just now?" he retorted while speaking to reporters at Vidhana Soudha. He was replying to a query on the BJP's protest against the committee.

"We have not snatched their rights. The rights of MLAs are intact. We have formed a new committee to oversee the proper delivery of guarantee schemes to the people. This is formed to ensure people are getting the guarantee schemes. The BJP, which criticized the gua...