If he had the support of 134 MLAs as the present Congress government does, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the people responsible for violating the law in the NICE project would have been in jail. Accusing the government of being complicit with the company in the NICE project, Mr. Kumaraswamy said it was not just the present government, but also the previous governments and their officials. Responding to queries relating to the advertisements in a section of the media on the NICE project, the Union Minister said the advertisement reproduces the observations recently made by a Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka on the NICE project.