KARNATAKA: 64-year-old Mallikarjuna Muthiyal was murdered on Monday near Sedam town in Kalburgi district Karnataka. Following his death, a confusion has erupted regarding which party he belonged to between the police and the BJP. Muthiyal was earlier member of Janata Dal(secular) JDS. After his murder, BJP has claimed that he is their party worker. SP Isha Pant didn’t accept this and it caused the dispute.

BJP claims that Muthiyal joined their party recently. BJP leaders say that on the day of his death, he attended Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's program and was brutally murdered by assailants while he was sleeping in his electronics store. Muthiyal 's shop is in Sedum Town. After the murder, senior police officers including local SP Isha Pant visited the place and inspected it.