BJP leaders march to CM's residence, taken into custody
The protesting MLAs, MLCs and other party workers were taken to Seshadripuram Police Station and were released in the afternoon
Salar News
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BJP State President BY Vijayendra. PHOTO: SALAR
BENGALURU, 3 JULY
Opposition BJP leaders tried to lay
siege to Chief Minister's office-cum-residence here on Wednesday alleging rampant
corruption by the ruling Congress government in Karnataka, but they were
stopped and taken into preventive custody. The protesting MLAs, MLCs and other
party workers were taken to Seshadripuram Police Station and were released in
the afternoon. After the protesters were prevented from protesting in front of
Chief Minister’s residence, they trooped down to the roads in front of CM’s
residence and yelled chants, ‘Dhikhara Dhikara, Sarkara Dikhara’ (Down Down,
Government Down).
The party leaders, including BJP
State President BY Vijayendra, Leader of Opposition R Ashoka, former ministers
S Sunil Kumar, Araga Jnanendra, S Suresh Kumar, CN Ashwath Narayan and CT Ravi,
were accompanied by MLAs and party workers. Due to the heavy deployment of
police forces, the BJP leaders could not reach their destination and were taken
under preventive custody. The party has alleged that there was around Rs 4,000
crore worth of alternative sites’ (plots) scam in Mysuru Urban Development
Authority (MUDA) in which one of the beneficiaries is Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi. The party also charged that there were attempts
to cover up over Rs 180 crore Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development
Corporation scam, which forced accounts superintendent P Chandrasekharan to die
by suicide.
“The MUDA scam in the Chief
Minister's home district Mysuru is much bigger than the scam in the Valmiki
Corporation," Vijayendra said before being taken into preventive custody. Ashoka
demanded that the government should hand over the MUDA scam to CBI instead of
assigning the case to a panel of IAS officers to probe the matter. He also
demanded that the Chief Minister should resign from his position. Malleshwaram
MLA CN Ashwathnarayan said, “Siddaramaiah is running the most corrupt government
and it is looting the State and its people.” Hubballi-Dharwad West MLA Aravind
Bellad asked how can such scandals happen without the knowledge of the Chief
Minister. Dismissing the charge as
false, Siddaramaiah rejected the BJP’s demand for the CBI probe into the case.
"I have already ordered an inquiry. BJP has no moral right to make such
demands. Why are they asking us to assign this case to CBI when they did not
hand over a single case to the investigation agency during its tenure in the
state," he said. – Salar News/PTI
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