Bengaluru, 11 Sept

Home Minister G Parameshwara on Wednesday said the committee of Ministers, formed to review and coordinate regarding the action to be taken in a probe by government and investigating agencies into various scams that have taken place during the previous BJP government, is likely to meet this week.

Parameshwara on Tuesday said during the BJP rule 20-25 scams have taken place, and all of them will be reviewed.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday constituted the five-member panel headed by Parameshwara, and asked it to complete the task in two months.

The move is said to be aimed at turning the tables on BJP, which has been targeting the ruling Congress over scams.

"Every case that is pending at various stages... some of them that have been decided and some yet to be decided...to review all of them and to submit a report a Cabinet subcommittee has been formed. Probably this week itself I will call a meeting of the committee," Parameshwara said.

Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister HK Patil, Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, Rural Development Minister Priyank Kharge and Labour Minister Santosh Lad are the members of the committee.

On BJP dubbing the move as "vendetta politics," the Home Minister said: "Let them say whatever they want, we will have to do our duty."

As for the Enforcement Directorate in its charge sheet stating that an estimated Rs 20.19 crore of the funds misappropriated from the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Ltd (KMVSTDCL) was diverted to Ballari during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in May, Parameshwara said the probe agency would have come to the conclusion based on the evidences that it has gathered.-PTI