Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday announced that there is no question of protecting anyone in connection with the honey trap row.
Congress leaders have flatly rejected these allegations, stating that the entire investigation is being handled by central agencies, the airport is under the control of airports authority.
On a day he presented his 16th budget, Karnataka Chief Minister S Siddaramaiah received good news as Karnataka High Court dismissed Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons to his wife and another minister in the alleged MUDA scam.
Even as the three-language formula has heated up Tamil Nadu police and reached the Supreme Court, the Kannada Development Authority on Thursday petitioned Karnataka Chief Minister S Siddaramaiah to adopt the two-language policy in the state.
The Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka too has begun to face allegations of “commissions” for clearing pending bills of contractors. Earlier, former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai had faced similar charges of 40 per cent commission.
Delimitation is a ticking political time bomb that will render South India less relevant to the country’s power politics whenever it explodes as the region stands to lose a significant number of the Lok Sabha seats if the delimitation exercise is done on the basis of fresh census.
A predictable war of words has broken out on the final report of the Lokayukta Police investigating into the MUDA scam in which Chief Minister S Siddaramaiah and his wife Padmavathi are the prime accused – with the opposition calling it a sham investigation and the ruling party saying that it was an out and out political ploy to defame and spoil Congress
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is accused number one in the case and the investigation is also conducted against others who got the illegal allotments done through the MUDA. His wife B.M. Parvathi is the second accused.
Siddaramaiah’s clarification came following accusations by the saffron party that the Congress is engaging in "Muslim appeasement".
Karnataka Lokayukta, probing the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) case, was preparing to issue summons to first accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, sources said on Saturday.
