Now, BJP threatens to expose Kumaraswamy’s misdeeds

PTI

Bangalore, 02 October 2010: Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy today challenged the BJP Government in the state to order a probe into the denotification of lands during his regime, disregarding an appeal by a group of ruling party leaders for an halt to ’mudslinging acts’.

 

"I stand by my allegations and accept the challenge. I am ready to face any kind of inquiry. Let the Chief Minister order it. Let the inquiry find out whether I indulged in favouritism or nepotism, as done by Yeddyurappa", Kumaraswamy, state unit President of JDS, told a press conference here.

 

"We cannot be cowed down by threats. I will continue to expose the misdeeds of this government", he said reacting to BJP MP D B Chandre Gowda’s threat that if the "mud slinging" acts by JDS did not stop, irregularities that took place while denotifying lands by Kumaraswamy as chief minister would be made public.

 

Earlier in the day, coming to the defence of Yeddyurappa, a group of BJP leaders, led by Chandregowda, appealed to opposition parties particulary, the JDS, to "halt mud slinging acts and defaming Karnataka in streets."

 

Addressing a press conference at the Chief Minister’s Home Office "Krishna", they said "let us stop washing the dirty linen in public and try to reconcile ourselves". Kumaraswamy said his party would take the issue of land denotification and allotment of sites by Yeddyurappa to his son B Y Raghavendra, MP, to legal forums.

 

In a fresh allegation, the third in the series since last week, he charged Yeddyurappa with denotifying ten acres of land in Nagawara area after the Bangalore Development Authority had alloted the sites and the allottees had built houses. It was a violation of Supreme Court order, he claimed.

 

Yeddyurappa had yesterday admitted that he had denotified 7.5 acres under powers vested with him but dismissed as "baseless" and a "figment of imagination" allegations of irregularities levelled by Kumaraswamy against him.

 

Hitting back at Kumaraswamy, Chandragowda alleged that he had denotified 275.21 acres of land including 60 acres in favour of a private firm during his regime in 2007. "People making alelgations should get ready to face them first. We will be constained to bring out irregularities that took place during Kumaraswamy regime including on denotification of lands", Gowda, a former speaker warned.

 

"It is not fair to indulge in character assasination of Yeddyurappa. He has got mandate to rule for five years. Allow him to rule. We know the family politics of H D Devegowda", Gowda, who was in Janata parivar for a long time, said.

 

He also charged when the state was under a spell of Presiden’t rule then Governor Rameshwar Thakur had ordered denotification of 127.21 acres.

 

Minister for Labour B N Bacchegowda and Political Secretary to the Chief Minister B J Puttaswamy were also present.