BJP comes under fire from Cong
Turning the heat on the main Opposition BJP on the issue of corruption, the Congress on Wednesday accused the saffron party of having double standards on the issue. It asked the BJP to sack Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in the wake of a controversy surrounding allocation of land to his son.
The BJP, however, rejected the allegations against the chief minister by saying that the land in question was allotted during H.D. Kumaraswamy’s rule, which was later cancelled by a court order.
Talking to reporters here, AICC spokesperson Manish Tewari said the BJP should ask the Karnataka chief minister to step down and the whole issue needs to be investigated by an agency independent of the state’s jurisdiction. “Any inquiry into the matter carried out under the accountant-general of Karnataka will not be impartial,” he said. “The saga of the BJP’s rule in Karnataka has been one of continuous and unrelenting corruption,” he said.
Mr Yeddyurappa is in trouble over the allotment of land, violating norms, for industrial purposes to his sons B.Y. Raghavendra, B.Y. Vijayendra and daughter Umadevi at Bengaluru and Shimoga and de-notification of lands in Bengaluru favouring his children and son-in-law.
While denying the allegations, BJP national spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said there was no question of Mr Yeddyurappa resigning from the post. “The party, however, is open to any kind of investigation including that of a judicial probe by a sitting judge of the high court,” she asserted. When asked about factional feud in the party’s state unit, which has fuelled the controversy, the BJP spokesperson said this is nothing but “misinformation” and there does not exist “any thing like that”.
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