Bengaluru, Dec. 6 -- Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday took to social media to rebut an appeal by the BJP for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into comments made by the state's Upalokayukta at a recent event, where he claimed that the state faced 63% corruption across administrative sectors.

The Upalokayukta, justice B Veerappa, who heads the state's anti-corruption watchdog, made the remarks at a public event on Wednesday.

In a post on X on Thursday, the chief minister referred to a report submitted by the Upalokyukta in 2019, during the tenure of the BJP government, saying that the report cited the same "63%" figure referred to by justice Veerappa at the event. "But today, senior BJP leader R. Ashoka, without correc...