The Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar, responded to the Election Commission's notice regarding advertisements of welfare schemes during election campaigning in Telangana polls, stating that the ads merely highlighted the government's achievements without asking for votes. According to Shivakumar, the Election Commission's notice does not align with the law. 

"Politically, we have not asked for votes. Whatever our government has done in our state, there are a lot of Telugu-speaking people here also, a lot of other language speaking people also live here, so we have given advertisements what we have done in our government. We've not asked for votes. We only gave advertisements on the works done by our government here," Shivakumar told news wire ANI.