Bengaluru, April 18: Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anant Kumar Hegde on Tuesday claimed a deliberate attempt was made to kill him. The minister tweeted about the incident, saying that a truck on National Highway, near Halageri in Ranebennur taluk of Haveri district hit his escort vehicle which apparently tried to hit his vehicle in the first instance. The vehicle had been driven in the wrong direction and was parked right in the road horizontally.

Watch the video shared by Anant Kumar Hegde:

He further said that since their vehicle was in top speed, they escaped the hit. The support staff in the escort vehicle has however, suffered severe injuries in the form of shoulder fracture.

The minister suspects a bigger nexus behind this incident and was confident the police would expose all of them. The minister stated that the truck driver was normal and was not under any influence of alcohol when the driver named, Nasir was caught.

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