Bengaluru, Jan. 27 -- Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president BY Vijayendra on Tuesday demanded that a proper investigation must be conducted into the excise scam involving more than Rs 6,000 crore, while also pressing that state excise minister Ramappa Timmapur resigns.

The investigation must be carried out either by a sitting High Court judge or by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), he asserted.

Speaking to the media here, Vijayendra said that the BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) are jointly staging a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vidhana Soudha against the "corrupt" Congress government.

"Rs 6,000 crore scam wherein the excise minister and his family members are involved, and proof has already emerged, but CM...