Bengaluru, Oct. 16 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday said that he chose imprisonment over political gain to remain loyal to his party when the coalition government in the state collapsed.

Speaking at the release ceremony of his book, written by KM Raghu, held at the FKCCI Hall in Bengaluru, Shivakumar said, "I chose to remain in jail as a party loyalist when the coalition government fell."

He revealed that when ten MLAs were about to resign, he rushed from Kanakapura to Bengaluru to bring them back to the quarters. "Then I got a call from an income tax auditor. The DG was with me. He spoke on the phone. DK Suresh was also with me. The caller asked whether you would become DCM or go to jail. He gave me the cho...