NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday rejected BJP’s demand for resignation of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, who faces Lokayukta probe in alleged Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA) website allotment case, and accused the saffron get together of making an attempt to defame the grand outdated get together.
“There is no such thing as a query of Siddaramiah resigning from the put up of chief minister. Neither a chargesheet is filed, nor he’s convicted.Let the regulation take its personal course, and when the scenario comes, the get together will study. We’re standing with him, we are going to help him, as a result of he represents the get together, not (an) particular person,” Kharge stated.
When requested about Siddaramaiah’s ethical proper to proceed as chief minister, Kharge stated: “When the Godhra incident occurred, whether or not (Narendra) Modi ji had resigned (because the then Gujarat CM)? A number of instances have been additionally pending in opposition to him at the moment, even in opposition to Mr Shah (Union Residence Minister Amit Shah).”
Kharge accused the BJP of focusing on Siddaramaiah to break the Congress get together.
“Do not goal a selected individual to break his picture, by him the get together can even be broken. Your (BJP) curiosity is to break the Congress get together, not the person. He could also be right here at present or will not be, the get together will proceed. Simply to destroy the Congress get together and the Congress get together’s base votes, they wish to destroy, that’s the reason they’re doing this,” the Congress president stated.
A Particular Court docket had on Wednesday ordered a Lokayukta police probe in opposition to Siddaramaiah within the case. The Lokayukta police later lodged an FIR in opposition to the Karnataka chief minister.
The order of the Particular Court docket Decide, Santhosh Gajanan Bhat, got here a day after the excessive courtroom upheld the sanction granted by the Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to conduct an investigation in opposition to Siddaramaiah on the allegations of illegalities within the allotment of 14 websites to his spouse B M Parvathi by MUDA.
The Particular Court docket completely to cope with prison instances associated to former and elected MPs/MLAs issued the order directing the Lokayukta police in Mysuru to provoke an investigation on the criticism filed by RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna.
Within the MUDA website allotment case, it’s alleged that compensatory websites have been allotted to Siddaramaiah’s spouse in an upmarket space in Mysuru, which had greater property worth as in comparison with the situation of her land which had been “acquired” by MUDA.
The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi underneath a 50:50 ratio scheme in lieu of three.16 acres of her land, the place it developed a residential structure.
Below the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land to the land losers in lieu of undeveloped land acquired from them for forming residential layouts.
It’s alleged that Parvathi had no authorized title over this 3.16 acres of land at survey quantity 464 of Kasare village, Kasaba hobli of Mysuru taluk.
(With inputs from businesses)
