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Don't I have the authority to do whatever I can? ""Kumaraswamy, who holds a constitutional post, has given a call for people to rise in revolt," BJP MP from Udupi Chikkamagaluru constituency Shobha Karandlaje said.Talking to reporters after submitting the complaint to the DGP, she said the person who was supposed to protect the Constitution and citizens of the country was "provoking" people. ""Government is in our hand. I caution him to be careful," he added.Hitting back, Yeddyurappa said if the state government was with Kumaraswamy, the central government was with the BJP.Soon after, Congress and JD(S) activists staged a demonstration outside Yeddyurappa's house raising slogans against him for his alleged attempts to destabilise the coalition government.The BJP condemned the demonstration, saying that the state government was trying to muzzle the voice of the Opposition, which showed its "anti-democratic face". BENGALURU: The Karnataka BJP on Friday accused chief minister HD Kumaraswamy of sedition and sought action over his remark asking people to "rise in revolt" against the saffron party for its alleged attempts to destabilise the state government.In its complaint to the state Director General of Police (DGP) Neelamani N Raju, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that the chief minister had violated section 124(A) (relating to sedition) and other sections of the IPC.Holding placards and raising slogans against former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and his sons, including Kumaraswamy, the BJP staged a protest near the Mysore Bank Circle, the nerve centre of the city, terming the chief minister's remark as a "call for anarchy..