Bengaluru (Karnataka), March 22 -- : Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday hit back at state BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa, asserting that no person will accept the allegations levelled against him or her.

Earlier during the day, the Congress alleged that some top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had received Rs 1,800 crore from Yeddyurappa, who rubbished the charges as "atrocious and malicious" and threatened to file a defamation case. He said that an inquiry had found the documents, cited by the Congress, as fake.

"Income Tax Department officials have already probed the issue and found that the documents and signature and handwritten notes are forged. The Congress leaders are apt in carrying out all these...