Siddaramaiah demands judicial probe into Karnataka Minister's statement on Operation Kamal ANI | Updated: Jan 16, 2021 23:19 IST Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 16 (ANI): Leader of the opposition (LoP) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah on Saturday demanded a judicial inquiry by a sitting judge into Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi's comment on Operation Kamal by ruling BJP. The term Operation Kamal or Lotus is used in politics to describe BJP's alleged plan to engineer the defections of Opposition MLAs to form the government. In a series of tweets, the Congress leader attacked the Karnataka government. He claimed that Minister for Water Resource Ramesh Jarkiholi provided evidence by saying that C P Yogeshwara, who was included into the cabinet recently, has raised Rs 9 crore loan for the formation of BJP government in the State.