Four months after the change of guard in the Congress-led Karnataka government, which saw D K Shivakumar replacing Siddaramaiah as the Chief Minister in early June, the party has been reeling from a raging controversy over an alleged sting operation about the ex-CM.

Both Siddaramaiah and his son Yathindra, a Minister in the Shivakumar Cabinet, have now openly hit out at the “fake sting video”, which they said was manufactured to tarnish the image of the Congress heavyweight.

They also indicated Friday that some Congress insiders were allegedly involved in the filming of this purported sting video in 2023 by Power TV MD Rakesh Shetty, which emerged on social media and some local TV channels last month.

While Shetty, considered close to Shivakumar, has been granted interim bail by a local Bengaluru court in the wake of the city police summoning him for interrogation, Yathindra alleged that some Congress people were hand in glove with him, pointing to a woman Congress worker who, he claimed, wanted the party…