Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Congress MLA Anand Singh was hospitalised on Sunday, January 20, after he got into a brawl with a party colleague on January 19 evening at the Eagleton Resort.

According to sources, Anand Singh was hospitalised after being hit on the head with a bottle by colleague JN Ganesh at the resort where all the lawmakers were moved on Friday.

Speaking on the matter, Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara said he does not have any information of Anand Singh being hospitalised. "Anand Singh is in hospital according to media. I don't have info. If he has gone I'll get details. I tried to talk to DK Shivakumar to ask what happened. I couldn't get him," he said.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar rubbished reports of a brawl between the two leaders.

"There is no fight. You saw all of them coming together, going together. It is fake news. Entire Congress party is united. I'm confident that even those who couldn't attend CLP will come to Congress," he said.

It may be recalled, Congress had moved 76 of its 80 lawmakers to Eagleton Resort amid fears of horse-trading by the BJP. The political drama in the state has entered its seventh day with Congress stepping up efforts to quell the issue.

Earlier, there were allegations that five lawmakers had gone missing but they surfaced shortly after and denied any involvement with the rival party.

The other four MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumathalli, B Nagendra and Umesh Jadhav, who failed to turn up at the resort for the Congress legislature party (CLP) meet on Friday have been issued a show cause notice.

However, Shivakumar said those failed to attend the meeting 'will also come back strongly to the Congress fold'.