WATCH: Karnataka minister V Somanna slaps woman at public event, stirs controversy

In the viral video Karnataka minister V Somanna is seen getting angry and slapping a woman as she approaches him with a plea to resolve her grievance.

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New Delhi: In a shocking incident Karnataka Housing Minister V Somanna surrounded himself with controversy after a video him of slapping a woman went viral on social media. Somanna allegedly slapped a woman in a village in Gundlupet when she went with a plea to resolve her grievance. In the video going viral on social media Karnataka minister Somanna is seen turning angry and hitting the woman on the face as she approaches him reportedly pleading him to allot a plot. 

According to PTI report, Somanna, who is the district in-charge minister of Chamarajanagar, had gone to Hangla village in Gundlupet and was taking part in a property document distribution ceremony.

Property documents were given to landless people who were occupying government land for residential purposes but had not secured any ownership of it till now.

Karnataka Minister V Somanna Slaps woman 

BJP minister V Somanna slaps a woman asking for his help on some issue ! This is the level of BJP ministers and some women support them on women issues like what the hell ?? What is the audacity of this minister ?! pic.twitter.com/LafD685JFH — Captain Ghaziabad (@CaptainGzb) October 23, 2022

Though the Minister had not reacted to the incident yet his office has shared a video in which the woman said she only pleaded a plot be granted to her as she was too poor.

"I bowed at his feet with the plea and the minister lifted me consoling me that he would help me but it was publicised that he beat me up," the woman accompanied by her children said in the video.

Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh criticised the minister for his purported conduct. "What a difference from the way @RahulGandhi began the Karnataka leg of #BharatJodoYatra from the very same Gundlupet on 30th September! This shameless man should be sacked immediately!" Ramesh tweeted. (sic)