Bengaluru, March 10 -- Congress MLA AS Ponnanna on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the allegations levelled by the opposition party against ministers in the state government amid the row over a gold smuggling case involving actress Ranya Rao.

Raising the issue of land allotment by the previous BJP government to a company owned by the actress, Ponnanna asked Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra to clarify the name of the minister involved in allotting lands in her favour during Basavaraj Bommai's tenure as Chief Minister.

"Let him clarify about the minister involved in allotting lands in her favour since it has happened during Bommai's government. Who was the minister who has given her land?" Ponnanna asked while ta...