Last day of the Karnataka Assembly session on Friday witnessed a major chaos over the issue of colossal Punjab National Bank fraud case involving absconding celebrity jewellery designer Nirav Modi.

When Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the Congress would retain Treasury Benches in the next Assembly and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “facilitator of corruption in the country-led to the pandemonium. As the BJP members continued their protest Siddaramaiah retorted and said BJP was indulging in “goondagiri”, they indulged in corruption 90 per cent and they are "Gangotri of corruption".

Holding Prime Minister responsible for the Nirav Modi case and his absconding, the Chief Minister said "Modi (Narendra Modi) is the facilitator of corruption in this country."

Earlier senior Congress member K N Rajanna mentioned about the Nirav Modi issue while intervening during the Chief Minister's reply to the discussion on the State Budget for 2018-19. Rajanna while referring to farm loan waiver in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra spoke about loans given to Nirav Modi and liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who are currently absconding. BJP took strong abjection to it and accused the MLA from ruling party of attempting to divert the issue.

While BJP members pointing at treasury benches said it was during the UPA rule that loan was given Nirav Modi and Mallya, Congress too made similar charges against NDA Government and Prime Minister, resulting in war of words between both sides. BJP leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar said "Is Congress incapable in the Parliament to raise the issue? What is Mallikarjuna Kharge (Congress leader in Lok Sabha) doing?." BJP members then trooped into the well of the House, shouting slogans "goondagiri Government".

As BJP continued protest, he called BJP "shameless" and alleged that the Opposition with a "malicious intent" did not want him to reply on the Budget.

BJP members shouted slogans like "down down 10 per cent Government", "down down arrogant Government". Hitting back, Siddaramaiah said BJP's protest was not right and was against the parliamentary system. "You are practising goondagiri," he countered. "As this was the last day of the last session, I'm quite or else I would have got you expelled, I would have seen to that you are put outside. You should be ashamed of your conduct," he told BJP members.

Even as the BJP protest and sloganeering were on, Siddaramaiah continued with his speech during which he claimed credit for announcing farm loan waiver and hit out at Modi Government for not coming to the rescue of farmers.

Earlier, Siddaramaiah claimed that public mood was in favour of Congress party and they would occupy treasury benches again, while BJP would continue in the Opposition in the 15th Assembly after election.

"I had told this even to Prime Minister after receiving him at Mysuru recently. I had told him about Congress retaining power, to which Prime Minister responded laughingly," he said.

Shettar said Chief Minister was in an "illusion" about retaining power and asserted that his party would come to power. He took exception to Chief Minister mentioning about his conversation with the Prime Minister as the latter was not present in the House to defend himself regarding the incident.