The Karnataka Congress, facing questions about reports of a brawl between its two lawmakers, had to counter BJP attacks on another front: Allegations that its party leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had received a Mercedes car from party lawmaker Byrathi Suresh. A tweet from the BJP this morning read: "Congress MLA Byrsthi Suresh gifts Sri @siddaramaiah a Mercedes-Benz car worth 1.5 crore. Wears spectacle costing ?2 Lakh. Wore 80 lakh worth hublot watch. Siddaramaiah vere looks like you have made enough & more money during your 10% govt." Congress minister and party trouble shooter DK Shivakumar said there was no "official record" of any such gift. "In the party, we get to use others' vehicles... so it's just one of those things," he said. Lawmaker Byrathi Suresh has said the car is in his wife's name. Mr Siddaramaiah had earlier faced criticism for sporting a Hublot watch, allegedly costing Rs. 70 lakh. He said the watch was a gift from a doctor friend who worked in the middle-east. But the BJP approached the Enforcement Directorate to flag the issue. The matter also raised a storm in the state assembly and became on the key issues on which the Congress faced attacks in the run-up to the assembly elections. One of Mr Siddaramaiah's detractors was HD Kumaraswamy of Janata Dal Secular, who heads the alliance government with the Congress.