BJP govt will complete full term, say Karnataka Ministers
Bengaluru, Sep 3: Amid repeated claims by former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah that the BJP government in Karnataka was short lived, several Ministers on Tuesday asserted that the administration under Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's leadership would complete its full term.
The ministers also expressed confidence about the BJP coming back to power after the next assembly election.
"I want to say- just as the Narendra Modi government completed its five year term in the county and got elected once again,in the same way we will complete the term under Yediyurappa's leadership.
The next government will also be BJP," Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol told reporters.
Continuing to express doubts over the longevity of the BJP government, Siddaramaiah, who is the Congress Legislature Party leader, had recently asked his party workers to prepare for assembly polls.
Housing minister V Somanna said the government would complete its term and get the blessings of the people once again in the next elections under Yediyurappa's leadership.
"Siddaramaiah is an experienced politician. I don't know what his perspective is. As far as I know, this government has three year ten months time.
We will complete the term andfight the election under Yediyurappa's leadership to get the blessings of the people once again," Somanna told reporters.
He said the people of the state did not desire any election soon
As the Yediyurappa-led BJP government completed one month in office recently, Siddaramaiah had claimed that it may last one year at the most.
Revenue Minister R Ashoka hit back at Siddaramaiah, saying he was making such comments as he was unable to digest not being in power.
"He (Siddaramaiah) is unable to digest that his government has gone. He is unable to stay without power. He is saying all this out of his grief over losing power. There is no truth in what he is saying," he said.
Ashoka said Yediyurappa would be Chief Minister for three years and 10 months and honest efforts would be made to give good administration to the people.
Following the collapse of Congress-JD(S) coalition government, Yediyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister onJuly 26 and subsequently proved his majority on the floor of the assembly on July 29.
More than three weeks after he was sworn in as CM, Yediyurappa expanded his cabinet on August20 by inducting 17 Ministers, and a week after that allocated portfolios to them.
Both the cabinet expansion and allocation of portfolios thereafter, that saw appointment of three deputy Chief Ministers, had lead to discontent within the BJP.
Siddaramaiah has been repeatedly saying that the BJP government cannot survive for long as it has come to power with the help of 17 Congress-JD(S) disqualified MLAs.
Alleging that 17 of them favoured BJP for the sake of "power", Siddaramaaih has said, "With those who are not committed to a party's principles and programmes, with those who don't have political values if you form a government, how long can it survive?"
The absence of 17 Congress-JD(S) MLAs during the trust vote had led to the collapse of the H D Kumaraswamy headed coalition government in July and helped the BJP come to power.
The then assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar had disqualified 17 Congress-JD(S) MLAs under the anti-defection law, which they have challenged in the Supreme Court.
On getting relief from the apex court, some of them would be inducted into the cabinet as per the arrangement agreed upon, BJP sources have said.
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Bus helper held for stealing USD 1,600 from Iranian woman's purse in Delhi; money recovered
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police has arrested a bus helper and recovered USD 1,600 that was allegedly stolen from the purse of an Iranian woman who had forgotten it on a private bus at ISBT Kashmere Gate, an official said on Sunday.
The incident came to light on December 15, when a complaint was lodged at the ISBT Kashmere Gate police post by Dr Ali Akbar Shah, a professor at Delhi University and a resident of Mukherjee Nagar, the police said.
He informed police that his guest, Fareshteh Sayanjali, an Iranian national, had arrived in India on December 13 and was staying at his residence, they said.
The woman had travelled to Uttarakhand's Rishikesh and was returning to Delhi on December 15 in a bus. While de-boarding at ISBT Kashmere Gate around 1.45 pm, she inadvertently left her purse on the bus seat, the police officer said.
After some time, she received a phone call from the bus operator informing her that the purse had been found in the vehicle. However, when the purse was handed back to her, she discovered that USD 1,600 in cash kept inside was missing," the officer added.
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Based on Dr Shah's statement, an FIR was registered at Kashmere Gate police station on December 16, and an investigation was taken up, police said.
During the investigation, the team questioned the driver and conductor of the bus in which the woman had travelled, police said.
During questioning, the conductor told police that Monish, the bus helper, found the purse lying abandoned on a seat and handed it over to him, police said.
Monish initially attempted to mislead the investigators, but later confessed to stealing the US dollars from the purse, police said
Following his disclosure, Monish was arrested on December 17 and recovered the entire stolen amount, police said.
The accused, Monish, 26, is a resident of Jahangirpuri in north Delhi.
He has studied up to Class 10 and has been working as a helper with the private bus service for the past year, they said.
