Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said there was “no situation” for the Enforcement Directorate to arrest Congress MLA Satish Sail, alleging that his party leaders are “being selectively targeted for political reasons.”

The ED arrested Sail in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal iron ore exports in the state. “There was no situation for arresting Satish Sail.

Things have been going on (in this case) since 2010. For politics, Congress people are being selectively targeted,” Shivakumar told reporters here. Sail, 59, the MLA from Karwar in Uttara Kannada district, was taken into custody late Tuesday night after questioning at the ED’s Bengaluru zonal office, according to official sources.