BSY cannot prove majority: Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru, May 17: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah said that BS Yeddyurappa who sworn in as the 24th Chief Minister of the state could not prove the majority in the Assembly.
After participating in a protest in front of the Gandhi statue near Vidhana Soudha here on Thursday against the Governor’s decision of inviting the BJP to form the government, he said that Congress-JDS combine has 117 numbers. But the Governor has invited the BJP which has only 104 seats and it is unconstitutional, he said.
BJP could not prove its majority. Yeddyurappa would be disappointed during Vote of Confidence. Their case registered in the Supreme Court was right and have the confidence of getting suitable verdict, he said.
Yeddyurappa’s statement that he would win the Vote of Confidence even though there are no clear numbers is a kind of brazenness. All the 78 MLAs of the Congress are together. Vijayanagar MLA Anand Singh has been to Delhi for a personal work and he would join the Congress team. While Pratap Gowda Patil was suffering from health problem and he is also with the Congress, he said.
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Gujarat man held for impersonating govt official, duping people with forged letters
Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.
Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.
“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.
One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.
Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.
Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.
“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.
