Mangaluru: “There is no conspiracy behind the arrest of mining baron Janardhana Reddy and the whole country knew the history of Reddy,” informed JDS state president H Vishwanath on Friday, November 16.

Vishwanath was in the city to attend the wedding reception of MLC B M Farooq’s daughter at Ullal. After alighting from the flight he spoke to the reporters at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Friday evening. Responding to a query on Janardhana Reddy’s arrest he said sarcastically that Reddy is a ‘big leader’ of the BJP and he is second in command after Amith Shah.