 he made a vast fortune this way, but one bad result was that the "arrack scam" became a very big scam in the press and was one of the main reasons why the Hegde government fell in Karnataka.By this time, the very flexible Adikesavulu had jumped ship and moved to the Congress party.It is said that Adikesavulu had supplied the Congress party with much of the fodder to create the scandal and uproar, because the demands of Hegde and others had become excessive, and also because he saw that the Congress party was on the upswing in Karnataka and anyway, it was always very strong in his native Andhra Pradesh, where his main businesses were located (in Chittoor district).