New Delhi, April 20 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Saturday slammed the Congress party over the Hubballi murder incident and said that the manner in which women are being killed in Karnataka in broad daylight, it seems "criminals are having a free run in the Congress government".

The Congress government in Karnataka is under severe pressure on law and order in the state after the twenty-four-year-old daughter of a Congress corporator was stabbed to death on the college campus in Hubballi.

Speaking to ANI, Shehzad Poonawalla said, "Today, in Karnataka, what we are seeing is the complete destruction of law and order in the last few weeks particularly and ever since the Congress has come. We see murders taking place...