Link to ‘paycm expose’? Scan Basavaraj Bommai face

The Congress has put up “paycm” posters across Bangalore with chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s face embedded in a QR code that would take one to the web portal the Opposition party has launched to “expose the BJP’s corruption”.

The name is a play on the digital payments app paytm and the posters have replicated the trademark blue colour and design pattern of the company. They also have the catchline “40% Accepted Here”, an allusion to allegations of kickbacks being demanded by functionaries of the BJP government to clear project bills.

Scanning the QR code on the “paycm” posters would take one to the website 40percentsarkara.com that the Congress launched last week for people to air their grievances about corruption in Karnataka. Close to 1.2 lakh “voices” have been “raised”, or complaints registered, on the website so far.